Scam of the Day
Scam of the day – April 21, 2020 – Ponzi Scammer Talk Radio Host Sentenced
In the Scam of the day for March 21st, I told you about criminal charges filed against investment adviser William Neil “Doc” Gallagher who operated a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme in which he victimized mostly elderly clients since 2014. Gallagher solicited his clients through appearances on radio shows including a Christian-talk radio station. He appealed to religious clients also through his book “Jesus Christ, Money Master: Four Eternal Truths That Deliver Personal Power and Profit.” However, instead of investing the funds provided to him by his clients, Gallagher primarily used the funds to support his own lavish lifestyle and to pay early investors with the money provided by later investors which is the hallmark of a Ponzi scheme. Gallagher’s scam is also a good example of what is called affinity fraud where people put undeserved trust in someone offering an investment opportunity because that person is “someone like me.” Affinity fraud works because people trust other people who may share a common bond, such as family, religion or some other group affiliation. The list goes on and on. Scammers take advantage of every connection they can make with their victims to gain their trust and then steal their money. In Gallagher’s case, his victims put undeserved trust in him because he seemed legitimate on the radio and espoused the same religious views that they did.
Now, after pleading guilty, Gallagher has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for his crimes.
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Before investing with anyone, you should investigate the person offering to sell you the investment with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Central Registration Depository. This will tell you if the broker is licensed and if there have been disciplinary procedures against him or her. You can also check with your own state’s securities regulation office for similar information. Many investment advisers will not be required to register with the SEC, but are required to register with your individual state’s securities regulators. You can find your state’s agency by going to the website of the North American Securities Administrators Association. In the case of Gallagher, he has not been a Registered Investment Adviser since 2009. Many investment advisers will not be required to register with the SEC, but are required to register with your individual state securities regulators. You can find your state’s agency by going to the website of the North American Securities Administrators Association. You should also check with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for information about the particular investment adviser.
It is also important to remember that you should never invest in something that you do not completely understand. This was a mistake that many of Bernie Madoff’s victims made. You also may want to check out the SEC’s investor education website at www.investor.gov. Scammers can be very convincing and it may sound like there is a great opportunity for someone to make some money, but you must be careful that the person making money is not the scam artist taking yours. Additionally, investing with someone merely because you trust them because you have heard them on the radio or television is dangerous. Having the same person advise the investment and control the investment such as was the case with Gallagher is a common thread among Ponzi schemers because it enables them to falsify documents to make the investment look profitable. Generally, for additional security it is desirable to have a separate broker-dealer act as custodian for investments chosen by an investment adviser.
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Scam of the day – April 20, 2020 – Danger of Facebook Quizzes
As we all spend more time in social isolation, we are also spending more time on social media and many of us are spending some of that social media time taking Facebook quizzes. Facebook quizzes are very popular, but they can be exploited by identity thieves. A good example of this was the “10 Concerts, but there is one act that I haven’t seen live. Which is it?” Facebook quiz. While this may appear harmless, the information you provide may tell more about you than is safe to make public. It may provide information about your approximate age and preferences in music which can then be used by a scammer to send you a phishing email tailored to appeal to your particular interests that you may trust and click on a link contained in the email that contains either keystroke logging malware that can be used to steal your identity or ransomware. Quizzes that ask about your favorite place to live or favorite movie characters may seem like simple fun, but may have been posted by an identity thief seeking to gather information the identity thief can use to make you a victim of identity theft. Particularly problematic is when a pop up appears when you start the quiz requiring you to agree to allow a third-party application access to your Facebook profile. If you agree to this, you are permitting the quiz poster to gain access to your Facebook profile information, your location and much more. Don’t do it.
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We all tend to put too much personal information on social media that can be exploited by scammers and identity thieves to our detriment. My advice is to avoid the problem entirely and not play these online games. However, if you, as many people do, find this game and other similar games to be fun to play, you may want to just adjust your privacy setting to “friends only” so that you limit who gets to see your answers. You also may want to check out your Facebook profile and remove personal information such as your phone number or home address.
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Scam of the day – April 19, 2020 – Sextortion Scams Increasing
I have been warning you about sextortion scams for five years, but it is important to remind you again because since the coronavirus pandemic started in earnest, scammers have increased their use of this scam as more and more of us are social distancing at home, but spending more time on our computers. The sextortion scam begins with an email in which you are told that your computer and web cam have been hacked and that the scammers have video of you watching porn online. A Scamicide reader forwarded to me an sextortion email received by him that I will share with you today. As with all of the sextortion emails that have been sent in the last few years this one threatens to send the videos to people on his contact list unless he pays a ransom in Bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency. Recent figures from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) indicate that the instances of this scam dramatically increased 242% over the previous year. The truth is that while it is possible to hack into someone’s webcam, these sextortion emails are being sent out as mass mailings without the videos they claim to have. The scammers’ hope is that some people will be fearful enough to send the ransom. In the Scam of the day for January 27, 2019 I wrote about how the scam had evolved whereby, in order to appear as a more legitimate threat, the scammers sometimes include in the email a password the targeted victim had used. Again, however, this email extortion threat is baseless. The particular email received by the Scamicide reader did not contain a password used by the reader, however, many versions of this sextortion email do contain passwords.The passwords that have been included in some versions of this email scam are indeed ones that the targeted extortion victims have used, however, they was obtained by the scammer from one of the many data breaches in which passwords were stolen.
This scam also illustrates the vulnerabilities of webcams to being hacked. There have been a number of scams about which I have reported in which people’s webcams have been hacked and compromising videos taken. Often when people install webcams, they use default logins and passwords. These default passwords are easy to find online. Generally, when you hook up anything wireless to your router, it comes with a password and login so it is critical that whenever you install any of these Internet of Things devices, you change the password and login to protect yourself, which leads us to my second concern – routers. A study by security company Avast found that about 80% of Americans do not properly secure their routers, leaving themselves vulnerable to being hacked. Many people still use either default passwords or easily guessed passwords, such as “password” for their routers.
Here is a copy of the email received by the Scamicide reader.
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As we connect to the Internet through more and more devices that are a part of the Internet of Things, it becomes increasingly important to be cognizant of maintaining proper security in all devices including, of course, routers and webcams. Laziness can have dire consequences. Never use default logins and passwords. As soon as you install any device that accesses the Internet, make sure that you protect yourself with secure logins and passwords. It is not difficult to hack into the webcam of a computer from afar. The same types of tricks used to get people to unwittingly download keystroke logging malware that enables the hacker to gather all of the personal information from your computer to be used to make you a victim of identity theft can be used to get you to download the malware that enables the hacker to take control of your webcam. Never click on links in emails or download attachments unless you are absolutely positive they are legitimate. They may be riddled with malware. Also, install and maintain anti-malware and anti-virus software on your computer and other electronic devices. For external webcams that are not a built-in component of your computer, a red light will signal that the camera is operating. Be aware of this. It is a good idea to merely disconnect the external webcam when you are not using it or merely take a post-it and cover the webcam’s lens whenever you are not using it, which is what I do. A photograph taken in 2015 shows Pope Francis using his iPad with a sticker over the built in web camera. This simple technique is also used by Mark Zuckerberg, former FBI Director James Comey and me. It is a simple and easy solution. For built in webcams, they too will generally have a blue light to indicate that it is operating, however, again, it is a good idea to merely cover the lens when you are not using it.
Finally, this scam provides a good example as to why you should have a unique password for all of your accounts.
As for the sextortion emails, it could have been expected that if a hacker actually did have the videos he claimed, he would include a screenshot in the sextortion email. The scammers do not include such a screenshot because they do not have the incriminating videos that they claim.
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Scam of the day – April 18, 2020 – Coronavirus Medicare Scam Phone Call
In yet another Coronavirus related scam, criminals posing as Medicare employees are calling people offering “Covid-19 kits,” “Coronavirus packages” or Medicare benefits related to the Coronavirus. During the course of the call the scammer tells you that in order to qualify for these various benefits they need to verify your Social Security number, Medicare number or even your bank account number, however there are no such benefits, it is not a Medicare employee calling you and if you provide the requested information, you will end up becoming a victim of identity theft. Even if your Caller ID indicates that the call is coming from Medicare, scammers are able to manipulate your Caller ID through a simple technique called “spoofing” to make their call appear legitimate when it is not. Here is a link to an audio recording of an actual scam call.
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Medicare is not calling people to offer “Covid-19 kits” or any other Coronavirus related material. Medicare will not communicate with you by email, text message or phone call. They will only communicate with you by regular mail. Whenever you receive a phone call, text message or email, you can never be sure who is actually contacting you so you should never provide personal information in response to such a communication unless you have absolutely confirmed that the communication is legitimate.
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Scam of the day – April 17, 2020 – Stimulus Payment Update
On March 27th, I first told you about the Coronavirus relief checks that are now going out to millions of Americans, but it is important to revisit this subject now that more details in the program have evolved.
The amount you will be receiving is dependent upon your adjusted gross income as listed on your most recent federal income tax return. People with adjusted incomes of $75,000 or less will receive $1,200 or $2,400 for qualifying individuals filing a joint income tax return. In addition, there will be additional payments of $500 for each qualifying child. Americans with adjusted gross income of more than $75,000 or $150,000 for a joint return will have their payment reduced by 5% of the amount your income exceeds $75,000. The payments will disappear for single filers with adjusted gross incomes more than $99,000 and $198,000 for joint filers with no children.
Scammers posing as government employees will be contacting you by phone, email and text messages asking you to pay a fee in order to receive your government check. Other scammers posing as government officials will ask for your Social Security number, bank account number or credit card number in order for you to qualify for a payment. The truth is that you do not have to do anything to qualify for a payment. You do not need to pay a fee. You do not need to apply for your check. You do not need to provide any personal information. Your eligibility will be determined by the IRS and your check will be either wired directly into the bank account you use to receive your income tax refund or if you have not provided the IRS with information about your bank account, your check will be sent to you by mail. It is as simple as that.
The IRS will determine whether to send you a check and in what amount based upon the information in your 2019 income tax return or if you did not yet file your 2019 income tax return, they will make their decision based upon your 2018 income tax return. If you are a Social Security recipient who was not required to file an income tax return, you do not have to file an income tax return to be eligible to receive a payment. The IRS will get your income information and determine how and where to send the funds based upon your records at the Social Security Administration.
The Treasury Department set up a Get My Payment website https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/get-my-payment where you can learn the status of your payment including the date the payment was wired into your bank account or mailed to you if your payment has already been sent. For faster processing, if you previously received your tax refund through the mail, but wish to have your stimulus payment wired directly into your bank account, you can provide your bank account information through this website. If you already provided your bank account information to the IRS in your 2018 or 2019 income tax return, you do not need to provide this information again.
Although, according to the IRS 6.2 million people have successfully tracked the status of of their payment on the Get My Payment website, there have been some problems with the Get My Payment website with many people not getting the information about their payment, but instead receiving the message “Payment Status Not Available.” Unfortunately, the website does not indicate why your payment status is not available, but instead directs you to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page where you can find a list of common reasons why your payment status was not provided.
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Trust me, you can’t trust anyone. Whenever you are contacted on the phone, by email or text message, you cannot be sure who is really contacting you. Even if your Caller ID indicates the call is from a legitimate federal agency such as the Treasury Department, it is easy for a scammer to “spoof” that number and make it appear on your Caller ID even if the call is coming from another number. Neither the IRS, the Treasury Department or any other federal agency will be contacting you by phone, email or text message about the stimulus checks. Anyone contacting you by phone, email or text message indicating that he or she is a federal employee is a scammer. In regard to the funds being sent to you pursuant to the Coronavirus stimulus package you will not have to make a payment or provide any personal information in order to receive your check. In order to use the Get My Payment website, you will have to provide your Social Security number so it is very important to make sure that you are using the real Get My Payment website and not a phony website constructed by a scammer to appear as if it is the real Get My Payment website. Check the website address carefully before providing personal information and do not go to the website from a link in an email or text message. Please share this Scam of the day with your friends and family and let them know about http://www.scamicide.com so we can help more people avoid being scammed during this vulnerable time.
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Scam of the day – April 16, 2020 – Unemployment Benefits Scams
Even before the Coronavirus pandemic, unemployment benefit scams were already a major problem costing the states and federal government billions of dollars each year. Part of the problem is that the federal government requires the states to pay claims within a few weeks even if the employer has not responded to confirm that the applicant for unemployment benefits is indeed eligible for those benefits. As with so many identity theft crimes, this one starts with the theft of someone’s Social Security number. Armed with that ammunition, the identity thief then applies on line for unemployment benefits, which are often paid before the legitimacy of the claim is confirmed. In this way, this crime is similar to income tax identity theft where the IRS often pays out bogus refunds before comparing the W-2s and 1099s submitted by employers with the information submitted by the identity thief filing the phony tax return. The payments are generally made by debit cards or direct deposit into bank accounts controlled by the identity thieves which make this crime simple to accomplish.
According to recent reports more than six million people have recently lost their jobs due to the Coronavirus pandemic and those seeking to apply for unemployment benefits are increasingly frustrated at the delays and difficulties they encounter in trying to apply for much needed unemployment benefits. Complicating the problem are websites that purport to assist you in applying for unemployment benefits. Many of these websites are bogus websites that ask for personal information not required in order to apply for unemployment benefits. The people behind these websites sell your personal information to other companies who use the information for marketing purposes including telemarketing. Even worse, however, are the fraudulent websites that take the information you provide and use it to make you a victim of identity theft.
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The best way to apply for unemployment benefits is online at your state’s official unemployment benefits website. In order to avoid reaching a phony or bogus website, you can use this website set up by the U.S. Department of Labor that provides links to the official websites for each state’s unemployment benefit agency. https://www.careeronestop.org/LocalHelp/UnemploymentBenefits/find-unemployment-benefits.aspx?location=DE&keyword=&persist=true&ajax=0
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Scam of the day – April 15, 2020 – Coronavirus Scams Costing Americans Millions
Since February I have been continuously warning you about a myriad of Coronavirus related scams and with good reason. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently reported that in just the first nine days of April, they had received complaints of losses due to Coronavirus scams of 7 million dollars. When added to the 4.8 million dollars worth of losses due to Coronavirus scams reported to the FTC from the beginning of the year until March 31st, the total for the year is close to 12 million dollars and this figure is probably low because it is likely that many scam victims didn’t report being scammed. If the scams continue to increase at their present rate, the amount lost to Coronavirus scams could well reach more than 100 million dollars by July. This is why here at Scamicide I believe it is important to inform you of all of the Coronavirus scams that are preying upon unwary people and give you tips on how to avoid those scams. To date, I have warned you about 19 different Coronavirus scams and I will be writing about many more in the days and weeks ahead. Among the scams about which I have written are scams involving fake Coronavirus related products, pump and dump securities fraud, robocalls, work at home scams, stimulus check scams and more.
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The FTC has set up a new website with much helpful information about a wide variety of Coronavirus scams which you can reach through this link. https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/features/coronavirus-scams-what-ftc-doing
In addition, I urge you to check the section of Scamicide which informs you of many Coronavirus scams and how to protect yourself from those scams. Go to the first page of the http://www.scamicide.com blog and click on the red tab at the top of the first page where it states “Coronavirus Scams” and it will take you to the long list of Coronavirus Scams. I urge you to let your friends and family know about Scamicide so I can help more people avoid these scams.
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Scam of the day – April 14, 2020 – FTC Issues New Warning About Tech Support Scams
Tech support scams in which consumers are tricked by scammers into believing there is a problem with their computers that require the expensive services of the scammers is a major problem. Tech support scams are increasingly common and victimize consumers 60 years or older about five times more than people between the ages of 20 and 59 according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). I have been warning you about these scams for years, but due to the Coronavirus pandemic causing more people to be spending more time on their computers, scammers have increasingly turned to this scam. Recently, the FTC issued an updated warning about this scam.
Tech support scams involve scammers, posing as Microsoft, Apple or other tech company employees, contacting you either by phone or through a pop up on your computer informing you that there is a serious problem with your computer that needs to be fixed. If you respond to the scammer’s communication you will be asked to provide the scammer with remote access to your computer in order for them to identify the problem. Once the scammer has remote access to your computer, he or she always finds a non-existent problem that they tell you they can remedy for a large fee.
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Providing remote access to anyone to your computer can lead to a myriad of problems including identity theft and the downloading of ransomware. Neither AOL, Yahoo, Apple, Microsoft or any of the other tech companies ever ask for remote access to your computer to fix problems and none of these companies will ever call you, text you or email you to inform you that there is a problem with your computer. The most common tech support scams start with popups on your computer that provide notices of security problems that contain telephone numbers for you to call to fix the problem, Whenever you get a pop-up, email, or text message that appears to tell you that you have a security problem with your computer, you should never click on any links contained in the message or call the telephone number provided. If your screen freezes, all you need to do is just turn off your computer and restart it. If you are concerned that you may be experiencing a real security problem you can contact tech support at the real tech companies directly by phone or by email using the phone number and email addresses you find on their respective websites.
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Scam of the day – April 13, 2020 – FTC Sending Checks to Victims of AAFE Products Scam
In 2017 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint against AAFE Products and its related companies, Kitchen Advance, Gourmet Cooking Online, Gourmet Cooking Rewards, Medicus Golf, Kick X Tour Z Golf Balls, Golf Online Academy, Golf Tour Partner and Purestrike Swing Clinic through which AAFE sold golf and kitchen gadgets on a free trial basis. The only problem was that if you signed up for the product, you were automatically charged for a monthly subscription service. According to the FTC, AAFE not only did not clearly disclose that its customers receiving the “free” product were automatically enrolled in the costly monthly subscription service, but also misrepresented its return, refund and cancellation policies.
Now the FTC is mailing checks to 14,370 victims of the scam. The funds for the refund were obtained by the FTC from AAFE. For more information about this particular refund program check out the “FTC Scam Refunds” tab in the middle of the first page of http://www.scamicide.com. You can find information there about the mailing of the refund checks. There is no cost or fee to file a claim or get a refund. Anyone who tells you differently is trying to scam you.
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Trust me, you can’t trust anyone. You should always be a bit skeptical of any “free” offer and always read the fine print in any contract you sign. Rarely is there anything fine in fine print. Also, in scams such as this, you are generally asked to provide a credit card number even though you are getting a free product. While a legitimate free offer may require you to pay for the shipping, you should still be skeptical of such offers because scams such as this are common where you have provided your credit card number to a company that signs you up for continuing purchases. Finally, make sure that you review your credit card monthly statement carefully to pick up as quickly as possible any such fraudulent use of your credit card. If you find such charges, you should contact your credit card company and demand that the charge be removed from your account and that no further monthly charges be posted.
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Scam of the day – April 12, 2020 – CT Attorney General Warns About Work at Home Scam
Working at home sounds very appealing. No commute and you get to work in your pajamas. What could be more convenient than that? Years ago, stuffing envelopes was a common work at home scam. That scam has been updated by other scammers to offers of being paid to read emails, but it remains a scam. The range of work at home scams is constantly changing and evolving, but the result is always the same – rarely are these work at home schemes legitimate nor do they provide any income except for the scammers who operate them. Often the advertisements for these work at home scams appear in legitimate media that have not checked out the legitimacy of the advertisements they run.
In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic there has been an increase in scammers taking advantage of the situation by perpetrating work at home scams including one version of the scam, about which Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has issued a warning, that actually makes you an accomplice to a crime. Your job is to receive goods, often electronics that have been shipped to you, inspect them and then reship them to an address provided to you by your new employer. The problem is that these goods have been purchased with stolen credit cards and you have just become an accomplice to the crime when you ship them to someone else who will then sell them to turn the merchandise into cash. The term scammers use to describe the people doing the reshipping is a “mule” and it can get you into a lot of trouble. The companies offering this type of work may seem legitimate, but they are not. In other versions of work at home scams you will be charged a fee merely to apply for a job. No legitimate company asks you to pay a fee to apply for a job. In another common work at home scam, you are sent a check for more than what you are to be paid and requested to wire back the excess amount to the employer. This is always a scam as the check is counterfeit and will bounce, but the money you wire to the scammer comes out of your account and is lost forever.
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As always, if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Check out work at home scams with the big three – your local attorney general, the Better Business Bureau and the FTC. And as always, you can Google the name of the particular company offering you the work at home program with the word “scam” next to it and see what turns up. Also, never pay a fee to apply for a job. As for reshipping scams, they are always a scam and you should steer clear of them. Whenever you receive a check, wait for your bank to tell you that the check has fully cleared before you consider the funds as actually being in your account. Don’t rely on provisional credit which is given after a few days, but which will be rescinded once a check bounces.
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