by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 16, 2025 | Scam of the day
Recently I got a Facebook friend request from a good friend of mine. The only problem was that we were already were Facebook friends. If one of your friends received a Facebook friend request that appeared to come from you, it does not mean that your account was...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 6, 2025 | Scam of the day
Social Media such as Facebook is filled with surveys, quizzes and games and while they are very popular and often entertaining, they often are exploited by identity thieves. A good example of this is the “10 Concerts, but there is one act that I haven’t...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 30, 2024 | 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...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 23, 2024 | Scam of the day
Bourbon has seen a large increase in popularity in the last ten years with bourbon sales reaching $5.1 billion in 2022. The increase is reflective of the wide range of people, including women and younger people, in particular, turning to bourbon as a spirit of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 11, 2024 | Scam of the day
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) more scams in the United States are started on social media than on any other platform at a cost for the last two years of 2.7 billion dollars and that figure is probably low because many victims, often out of...
