by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 5, 2025 | Scam of the day
With the return of cold weather throughout much of the United States there has been a dramatic increase in telephone scams involving scammers posing as utility company customer service representatives demanding payments and threatening to turn off electrical power if...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 31, 2024 | Scam of the day
Laundering money derived from a scam is an essential element of many scams. Scammers can be extremely clever at distancing themselves from their scams in order to avoid detection. The people they enlist either as willing or unknowing participants in the laundering...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 20, 2024 | Scam of the day
Xiao Kun Cheung was indicted in Federal Court in Georgia on charges related to a tech support scam allegedly perpetrated by Cheung and co- conspirators targeting the elderly in Georgia, Florida and Tennessee in which seniors were contacted by phone or through pop-up...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 15, 2024 | Scam of the day
In the last few years there has been an increase in reports of scammers calling people on the telephone and telling them that they have won one of the Publishers Clearing House lotteries, but that they have to pay fees or taxes before being able to claim their prize. ...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 26, 2024 | Scam of the day
This year the Department of Homeland Security launched a task force to combat gift card draining, a scam in which criminals use stolen or altered gift card numbers to drain money from gift cards before the purchaser of the gift card can spend it. The task force named...
