by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 31, 2026 | Scam of the day
Looking ahead to a busy air travel season in which we can expect delays and cancellations due to a variety of reasons, scammers will be taking advantage of the situation. Delays and cancellations occur for a number of reasons including bad weather and air traffic...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 30, 2026 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about sextortion scams for ten years. One way that sextortion scams begin is with an email in which you are told that your computer and web cam have been hacked and that the scammers have video of you watching porn online. In the email, the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 29, 2026 | Scam of the day
We are all familiar with CAPTCHA tests which appear on many websites that we use and are intended to confirm that you are not a robot, but a real person. CAPTCHA is an acronym for “completely automated public Turing Test to tell computers and humans...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 28, 2026 | Scam of the day
In the Scam of the day for March 6, 2025 I told you that twenty-five Canadians were arrested and charged with operating the grandparent scam through a call center in Canada where they contacted elderly victims in 40 American states between 2021 and 2024 during which...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 27, 2026 | Scam of the day
Scammers are always taking advantage of what is going on in the news to use it as a hook for scams and the war in Iran is no exception. A number of Iran war scams have begun to proliferate and as with many scams, they use emotional appeals to lure people into being...
