by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 16, 2024 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is the third in a series of Scams of the day dealing with election related scams. A common election time scam involves a call purportedly from your city or town clerk informing you that you need to re-register or you will be removed from...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 15, 2024 | Scam of the day
Scammers are taking advantage of the public’s interest in the elections to make robocalls in which they pose as candidates asking for donations. This particular scam can easily seem legitimate. Caller ID can be tricked through a technique called...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 14, 2024 | Scam of the day
The much anticipated November elections are coming soon and there is heightened interest in the presidential election and other contests and, of course, when people are interested in something, scammers take advantage of that interest to formulate scams related to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 3, 2022 | Scam of the day
With the important mid-term elections rapidly approaching, scammers are busy taking advantage of this fact to scam people and make them victims of identity theft. One common election scam involves a telephone call you receive purportedly from one of the political...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 19, 2020 | Scam of the day
A month ago in the Scam of the day for August 31st I told you about presidential campaign scams involving solicitations by telephone for campaign contributions by scammers posing as campaign workers for the major candidates. However, scammers taking advantage of...
