by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 4, 2020 | Scam of the day
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) jointly with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey sued Commonwealth Equity Group, LLC which does business under the name Key Credit Repair alleging that the company engaged in illegal deceptive and abusive...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 3, 2020 | Scam of the day
As phishing emails go, the email reproduced below is very legitimate looking. This email comes from a Scamicide reader. The email is a scam and if you click on the links contained in the email, you will either be prompted to provide personal information that will...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 2, 2020 | Scam of the day
Minnesota Democratic senator and former presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar along with Kansas Republican senator Jerry Moran have proposed legislation to protect elderly Americans from Coronavirus-related scams. Their bill which is called the Protecting Seniors...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 1, 2020 | Scam of the day
Like most federal legislation, the CARES Act which was enacted into law in late March and provided for billions of dollars of stimulus payments to millions of Americans is complicated. While much of the media focused on payments of as much as $1,200 to people...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 31, 2020 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is about a phishing email presently circulating that attempts to lure you into clicking on a link in order to continue using your AOL account. If you click on the link two things can occur and both are bad. Either you will end up...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 30, 2020 | Scam of the day
Earlier this month the Treasury Department announced that it had electronically sent more than 200 billion dollars of CARES Act stimulus payments to approximately 130 million Americans in the program’s first four weeks. Payments under the CARES Act are...
