by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 11, 2025 | Scam of the day
I have often written about imporster scams where scammers pose as legitimate companies or government agencies that you know and trust in an effort to lure you into providing personal information or making a payment under some pretext. Now, in an unusual twist on the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 28, 2020 | Scam of the day
I have warned you numerous times in the last few years about the Business Email Compromise scam which continues to be an effective scam perpetrated against many companies. According to FBI figures the amount of money lost to victims of this scam last year reached a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 5, 2019 | Scam of the day
I have been reporting to you about this particular scam preying upon home buyers for three years. Earlier this summer, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a warning about the scam and its dramatic increase. This week there were reports about the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 23, 2019 | Scam of the day
Two days ago 80 people, mostly Nigerian nationals were charged in a 252 count indictment. According to the indictment, the defendants operated a variety of online scams most notably business email compromise scams and romance scams as well as a number of scams...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 27, 2019 | Scam of the day
The Business Email Compromise scam continues to be an effective scam perpetrated against many companies. According to recently released FBI figures the amount of money lost to victims of this scam doubled in 2018 from the previous year to a record 1.2 billion...
