by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 24, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Today’s “scam of the day” is similar to warnings I have provided numerous times in the past. Whenever there is a real or imagined intriguing newsworthy story, particularly about celebrities or natural disasters, people are drawn to the latest videos...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 31, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
One of the largest thefts of credit card information in history has been recently discovered involving up to ten million MasterCard and Visa credit cards. As with all of your personal information, you are only as safe as the places that have your personal and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 10, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The answer to the question about why scammers are drawn to Facebook is the same answer to the question posed to a bank robber as to why he robbed banks. Because that is where the money or in the case of Facebook, the victims and money can be found. The latest...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 16, 2012 | Charity Scams, Investment Scams, Scam of the day
Although it may seem as if this scam only began in earnest with the invention of email, in fact, the scam itself is just a variation of a scam that is more than four hundred years old when it was called the Spanish Prisoner Con. At that time a letter was sent to the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 16, 2012 | Investment Scams, Scam of the day
This scam keeps reoccurring around the country and people still are falling victim to it. It starts when you receive an email from a purported hit man who informs you that he has been hired by someone you know to kill you. However, the hit man then tells you that he...