by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 6, 2025 | Scam of the day
ParkMobile the popular mobile and web parking payment platform suffered a data breach in 2021 resulting in personal information of 22 million of its users being compromised and then leaked on a Dark Web hacking forum making the information available to anyone...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 5, 2025 | Scam of the day
Zhimin Qian, the self-proclaimed “Goddess of Wealth” was convicted this week in the UK on money laundering charges related to a massive Ponzi scheme that she operated in China between 2014 and 2017 that cost her 128,000 victims $6.7 billion. Qian claimed...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 4, 2025 | Scam of the day
Scammers are big fans of gift cards because they are easy to purchase, easy to send to the scammer and impossible to trace to the scammer. According to the FTC, consumers lost 217 million dollars to gift card scams in 2024. It is not even necessary for the scammer...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 3, 2025 | Scam of the day
Job scams are fertile ground for scammers. I have written about many forms that these scams take. Recently the New Hampshire Attorney General issued a warning about scammers posing as local businesses sending emails and text messages that appear to come from New...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 2, 2025 | Scam of the day
As always scammers are opportunists taking advantage of whatever is in the news, particularly if the news creates some sense of emergency and the present government shutdown fits the bill. Scammers are contacting targeted victims by emails, text messages and phone...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 1, 2025 | Scam of the day
The annual open enrollment period for Medicare begins on October 15th and will end on December 7th. This is the only time during the year that people enrolled in Medicare can change their Medicare health plans, Medigap plans and prescription drug plans. By now,...
