by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 21, 2024 | Scam of the day
This scam starts when you receive a message on Facebook Messenger that looks like this: (image: Sophos) The message will have a link and what appears to be a video, which many people would be tempted to click on out of a concern that the video may be significant,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 18, 2024 | Scam of the day
It is not surprising that Facebook has been a favorite medium for scammers. Its very popularity and the fact that on Facebook you are communicating with your friends is reason enough for scammers to use Facebook as a platform for scams. There has been a resurgence...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 7, 2024 | Scam of the day
For years I have written about Twitter and Facebook scams involving a number of celebrities such as Dwayne Johnson, Tyler Perry and Elon Musk. Posing as a famous person on social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram is quite simple to do and has proven to be...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 25, 2024 | Scam of the day
Recently in Ohio, Mubarik Ibrahim was sentenced to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay $840,000 in restitution for his part in romance scams he and other co-conspirators perpetrated between December of 2014 and April of 2022. He and his cohorts created fake...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 14, 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...
