by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 23, 2026 | Scam of the day
For many years Medicare used a person’s Social Security number as his or her Medicare number which put Medicare recipients in serious danger of identity theft. Medicare resisted changing the Medicare number to a safer random number for many years. Finally, in...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 22, 2026 | Scam of the day
I first warned you about this particular scam in 2017, but it has recently resurfaced in many places around the country including Carmel, New York where the Carmel Sheriff is warning people about scammers posing as the pastor of a Carmel church contacting parishioners...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 21, 2026 | Scam of the day
In recent years, I have written many times about the myriad of cryptocurrency scams that have cost people billions of dollars. A recent cryptocurrency scam involved the Betterment investing service when a notification was sent to its customers that appeared to come...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 20, 2026 | Scam of the day
Credit repair scams are very common as scammers take advantage of people with debt problems and promise to fix their credit and clear their credit reports of adverse information for up front fees. I have been warning you about these scams for thirteen years. Recently...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 19, 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. | Jan 18, 2026 | Scam of the day
Following a major outage last week, Verizon is offering a $20 credit to customers through a text message. Unfortunately, scammers posing as Verizon are sending text messages posing as Verizon in which you are required to enter credit card information or bank account...
