by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 4, 2026 | Scam of the day
Whether we are at the airport, a hotel, a shopping mall, a coffee shop or almost anywhere else, you will usually find free public Wi-Fi service offered so that we can use our cell phones, laptops or tablets to connect to the Internet. However with this convenience...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 3, 2026 | Scam of the day
The Anne Arundel County Maryland Police Department has issued a warning about scammers posing as bank fraud department employees calling their targeted victims and using psychology skills that Freud would have envied convince their victims that their debit card or...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 2, 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. | Nov 1, 2026 | Scam of the day
Since 2017 I have been warning you about scammers planting phony customer service numbers online and using those numbers to trick their victims into providing personal information or paying them money. Scammers construct phony websites that appear to provide a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 31, 2026 | Scam of the day
Everyone loves coupons and like many things in our lives, coupons which used to be found commonly in newspapers and magazines have migrated online. In recent years scammers have been perpetrating phony coupon scams on social media. Among the companies affected by...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 30, 2026 | Scam of the day
We are all familiar with the infamous Nigerian email scam in which you are promised great sums of money if you assist a Nigerian in his effort to transfer money out of his country. Variations of this scam include the movement of embezzled funds by corrupt officials,...
