by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 19, 2023 | Scam of the day
Scammers, in general have no empathy and a new scam being reported by the Federal Trade Commission is a good example of that fact. People who have very recently lost a family member are getting phone calls purporting to be from the funeral home handling the funeral...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 14, 2023 | Scam of the day
Convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff who stole 50 billion dollars from unsuspecting victims may be the last person from whom you would accept investing advice, but in fact, his advice, as contained in a 2014 jailhouse interview Madoff gave to the Wall Street Journal...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 17, 2023 | 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, FBI,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 20, 2023 | Scam of the day
Two days ago, federal prosecutors unsealed charges against Bryan Lee in regard to an investment scam where Lee and the previously indicted Neil Chandran operated companies that purported to be developing metaverse technologies and cryptocurrencies. They promised...
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...
