by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 13, 2022 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently reported that in the first nine months of 2021, consumers lost 148 million dollars to scams in which gift cards were used as the payment method. This amount was more than in all of 2020. Scammers are big fans of gift cards...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 30, 2021 | Scam of the day
Buying a gift card as a gift is both an easy way to purchase a gift for someone and a good way to make sure that the gift is something that the receiver of the gift can actually use and enjoy. However, scammers are always ready to take any good thing and turn it into...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 22, 2021 | Scam of the day
The New Hampshire Attorney General is warning New Hampshire residents about a letter being received by many people that appears to come from the New Hampshire Attorney General. The phony letter comes on what appears to be stationary of the Attorney General and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 21, 2021 | Scam of the day
Sophisticated scammers are adept at adapting the latest technologies and using them for purposes of scams. A wide variety of scams involve the scammer convincing the victim to send money to the scammer under a wide variety of pretenses including romance scams and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 17, 2021 | Scam of the day
This particular scam is one about which I have warned you many times over the years, but it deserves another warning because it is still occurring throughout the country. Recently, the electrical utility company National Grid published a warning about scammers posing...
