by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 3, 2019 | Scam of the day
Marvel studio’s Avengers: Endgame movie which was just recently released is a worldwide blockbuster with ticket sales reaching 1.5 billion dollars in the first week. It seems everyone is anxious to see this movie, however, there are people who want to see the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 24, 2019 | Scam of the day
The technology behind the chip credit card was intended to eliminate much of the credit card and debt card fraud that was formerly easy to accomplish with the older magnetic strip credit and debit cards which contained all of the account information on the magnetic...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 11, 2019 | Scam of the day
The problem of financial abuse of seniors was highlighted again recently with the arrest in California of Charisma Denise Wells on charges related to illegally using the credit card of a 92 year old woman for whom Ms. Wells was serving as a temporary caretaker. Also...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 5, 2018 | Scam of the day, Uncategorized
Today’s Scam of the day is one about which I wrote five years ago, but I have received reports that this scam is still being perpetrated so I thought I would warn you about it again. It is a particularly clever scam. It starts when you receive a call from a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Yesterday the hotel chain Marriott announced that it had suffered a major data breach involving its Starwood guest reservation database. Starwood is a group of hotels bought by Mariott in 2016 and includes such well known hotel chains as the St. Regis, Westin,...
