by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 1, 2021 | Scam of the day
Impostor scams have long been among the most lucrative for scammers. While there are many variations of this scam, the most common variations have involved scammers calling their intended victims on the telephone posing as some governmental agency such as the IRS,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 31, 2019 | Scam of the day
Scams involving utility bills for electric, water or gas services have long been popular with scammers and with much of the country in the grip of cold weather, scammers are using robocalls posing as their targeted victims’ electric utility company threatening...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
It was just about seven weeks ago that I told you about the arrest of 24 people in New Delhi, India on charges related to operating a tech support scam. Now Indian law enforcement officers working with Microsoft located a major fake tech support call center also...
by admin | Sep 21, 2018 | Scam of the day
Scammers are calling people on the phone posing as employees of the Social Security Administration and telling their intended victims that their Social Security numbers have been suspended due to the number being used by criminals for fraudulent purposes. They then...
by admin | May 19, 2018 | Scam of the day
Automated prerecorded robocalls which, for commercial purposes are always illegal, are the number one consumer complaint reported by the public to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and are used to perpetrate a wide variety of frauds at a cost of approximately 9.5...
