by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 12, 2019 | Scam of the day
Receiving a telephone call from a debt collector is not a pleasant experience. Being hounded by someone attempting to collect a debt you do not owe is fraud. These non-existent debts are sometimes referred to as “phantom debts.” The Federal Trade...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 11, 2019 | Scam of the day
Valentine’s Day is rapidly approaching and many people are looking for love, as Johnny Lee sang in the old movie “Urban Cowboy”, “in all the wrong places.”. Looking for love and romance are basic human drives and scammers take advantage...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 10, 2019 | Scam of the day
Valentine’s Day is in three days. This is a very important day to many people including scammers and identity thieves who always manage to find an opportunity in whatever is going on to scam you out of your money. There are many Valentine’s day scams,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 9, 2019 | Scam of the day
Pyramid schemes are a type of scam that has been around for many years, but keeps popping up and scamming unsuspecting victims taken in both by their lack of skepticism and an abundance of greed, which is a profitable combination for scam artists. Recently, Bob...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 8, 2019 | Scam of the day
Recently there has been a dramatic increase in the stealing of frequent flier miles from the accounts of unsuspecting airline customers who participate in the various airline frequent flier programs. The reasons for this is because this kind of theft is easy to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 7, 2019 | Scam of the day
A Subscriber Identity Module, more commonly known as a SIM card, is an integrated circuit that stores information used to authenticate subscribers on mobile devices, such as a cell phone. The SIM card is able to be transferred between different devices, and often is,...
