by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 25, 2020 | Scam of the day
The Coronavirus pandemic has had a harmful effect on many industries and the cruise industry has been hit particularly hard due to safety concerns about taking a cruise at this time or even in the near foreseeable future. This has caused many people who have booked...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 22, 2020 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced that it had sent out 50 more warning letters to companies marketing phony cures and treatments for the Coronavirus. This brings the total number of companies who have received such cease and desist letters to 170...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 20, 2020 | Scam of the day
The Coronavirus pandemic has been a gold mine for scammers who are capitalizing on the public’s concern through a wide variety of scams. The scams have proliferated so much that here at Scamicide we even have a separate section that describes these scams and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 17, 2020 | Scam of the day
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...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 16, 2020 | Scam of the day
Recently, the Treasury Department announced that it had electronically sent more than 200 billion dollars of CARES Act stimulus payments to approximately 130 million Americans in the program’s first four weeks. Payments under the CARES Act are determined in the...
