by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 11, 2025 | 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. | Jun 19, 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. | Jun 17, 2024 | Scam of the day
Recently, Florida passed a new law that will go into effect on January 1, 2025 that will help protect people over 60 years of age and vulnerable adults from losing money to scams. According to the FBI, People over the age of 60 lost more than 3.4 billion dollars to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 14, 2023 | Scam of the day
Convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff who stole 50 billion dollars from unsuspecting victims may be the last person from whom you would accept investing advice, but in fact, his advice, as contained in a 2014 jailhouse interview Madoff gave to the Wall Street Journal...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 16, 2023 | Scam of the day
WeChat and Weixin are Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment apps developed by Tencent. First released in 2011, they became the world’s largest standalone mobile apps in 2018 with over 1 billion monthly active users. The Federal Trade...
