by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 3, 2026 | Scam of the day
I am sure by now all of you are familiar with the grandparent scam where a grandparent receives a telephone call from someone purporting to be their grandchild who has gotten into some trouble, most commonly a traffic accident, legal trouble or medical problems in a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 25, 2024 | Scam of the day
In the Scam of the day for May 7 2024 I told you that Ravinkle Mathon was arraigned in a Maryland court accused of attempting to scam an elderly man out of $200,000 in an elaborate scam that has increased dramatically in the last year. Police say that the scam began...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 23, 2023 | Scam of the day
Last Friday, the FBI announced that it had recovered almost 3 million dollars worth of Bitcoins that were the proceeds of a scam operated by as of yet unidentified scammers perpetrating an elaborate phone scam on elderly Americans and first generation American...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 5, 2023 | Scam of the day
The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced in October that there would be an 8.7% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security recipients beginning this month which is the biggest increase in forty years. Scammers are taking advantage of this news ...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 12, 2022 | Scam of the day
Recently a federal grand jury in Puerto Rico returned indictments of eight people accused of operating a debit card scam in which they visited elderly clients of a local bank posing as either federal agents or officers of the bank and told their victims that their...
