by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 19, 2020 | Scam of the day
A month ago in the Scam of the day for August 31st I told you about presidential campaign scams involving solicitations by telephone for campaign contributions by scammers posing as campaign workers for the major candidates. However, scammers taking advantage of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 18, 2020 | Scam of the day
People are reporting receiving calls that purport to be from Apple’s Special Investigations Unit telling them that illegal child pornography has been discovered on you cloud account. The phony investigator is sympathetic when you inform them that you never...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 17, 2020 | Scam of the day
In March I told you about the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) suing the investment training company Online Trading Academy (OTA) and its principals for fraud. Now the FTC has settled its claims agains the OTA and its principals. As a part of the settlement, the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 16, 2020 | Scam of the day
Pornography websites are among the most widely searched websites on the Internet and this fact is not lost on a hacking group called Malsmoke who have recently managed to install malware on many of those websites. The malware is imbedded in malicious ads then when...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 15, 2020 | Scam of the day
Nine people were recently arrested and charged with 700 smash and grab thefts that lead to a thousand incidents of identity theft at a cost of more than 1.5 million dollars stolen. Smash and grab is the term used to describe when criminals break into cars and steal...
