by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 20, 2025 | Scam of the day
Convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff who stole 50 billion dollars from unsuspecting victims may be the last person from whom you would accept investing advice, but in fact, his advice, as contained in a 2014 jailhouse interview Madoff gave to the Wall Street Journal...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 11, 2025 | Scam of the day
Whatever is popular with many people is going to be popular with scammers and so it should come as no surprise that scammers are using YouTube as a platform for perpetrating a wide variety of scams. More than 2.7 billion people use YouTube making it the third most...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 5, 2023 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about romance scams for many years. More recently I have been warning you for the last few years about the myriad of scams involving cryptocurrencies. In the last few years a new scam combining the romance scam and cryptocurrency scams has...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 18, 2023 | Scam of the day
Investment scams have always been with us, but according to the Federal Trade Commission, they reached 3.8 billion dollars of losses last year which was double the amount of the previous year. Many of these investment scams are promoted on social media, emails and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 14, 2023 | Scam of the day
Convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff who stole 50 billion dollars from unsuspecting victims may be the last person from whom you would accept investing advice, but in fact, his advice, as contained in a 2014 jailhouse interview Madoff gave to the Wall Street Journal...
