by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 28, 2024 | Scam of the day
Whatever is popular with many people is going to be popular with scammers and so it should come as no surprise that scammers are using YouTube as a platform for perpetrating a wide variety of scams. More than 2.7 billion people use YouTube making it the third most...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 24, 2024 | Scam of the day
Scams know no political boundaries and while Scamicide focuses on scams affecting Americans, many of the scams and identity theft threats I discuss are found throughout the world. Recently my attention was drawn to a whistleblower in Ukraine who contacted...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 1, 2024 | Scam of the day
Affinity fraud is the name for the type of fraud where people put undeserved trust in someone offering an investment opportunity because that person is “someone like me.” Affinity fraud works because people trust other people who may share a common bond,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 25, 2023 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about romance scams for many years. More recently I have been warning you for the last few years about the myriad of scams involving cryptocurrencies. In the last few years a new scam combining the romance scam and cryptocurrency scams has...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 7, 2023 | Scam of the day
I have been writing about cryptocurrency scams for years. There a variety of scams that attempt to steal your cryptocurrencies from you. One of the most important decisions anyone should make when deciding whether to invest in cryptocurrencies is what kind of a...
