by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 18, 2026 | Scam of the day
Laundering money derived from a scam is an essential element of many scams. Scammers can be extremely clever at distancing themselves from their scams in order to avoid detection. The people they enlist either as willing or unknowing participants in the laundering...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 17, 2026 | Scam of the day
Airbnb is a deservedly popular service that connects homeowners wishing to rent a room or their entire house with vacationers and other travelers in 191 countries around the world. I have used Airbnb many times. Unfortunately, anything popular with the public is also...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 16, 2026 | Scam of the day
Whatever is popular with the public is popular with scammers which is why it is not surprising that scammers are sending out text messages that appear to come from Amazon informing their targeted victims that there is a recall of a product that the targeted victim...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 15, 2026 | Scam of the day
In the Scam of the Day for December 22, 2023 I first told you about the data breach involving all thirty-six million customers of Internet service provider Comcast Cable Communications which does business as Xfinity in which usernames, hashed (encrypted) passwords,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 14, 2026 | Scam of the day
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) more scams in the United States are started on social media than on any other platform at a cost of 3.8 billion dollars in 2024 and that figure is probably low because many victims, often out of embarrassment, do not...
