by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 31, 2022 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about romance scams for many years and just a year ago I first warned you about the pig butchering scam. This scam originated in China in 2019 and is called sha zhu pan or pig butchering in English. The name is derived from the practice of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 11, 2022 | Scam of the day
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is warning people about a new scam in which people are receiving calls with recorded messages from scammers posing as either U.S. Border Patrol agents, CBP employees or Customs and Border Protection officers. The message...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 30, 2021 | Scam of the day
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are extremely popular with the public and scammers are exploiting that interest with a wide variety of scams featuring Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Over the years I have written about a wide variety of cryptocurrency scams,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 18, 2021 | Scam of the day
In July of 2020 I told you about how Twitter accounts belonging to many prominent people including Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg and many more prominent people along with company Twitter...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 9, 2019 | Scam of the day
I have written about cryptocurrency scams many times for more than four years. Most recently I warned you about a new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) warning to investors about cryptocurrency related scams including investments in confusing cryptocurrency...
