by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 17, 2012 | Scam of the day
Have you ever heard of area code 809? Don’t feel bad if you haven’t because it probably is not an area code with which you would be familiar unless you make a lot of calls to the Caribbean. Similar to the 900 scam, you may receive a call in your voice mail telling...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 16, 2012 | Facebook / Social Networking Scams, Scam of the day
We’re number one! Every year we hear that cry from fans of the two teams playing in the Super Bowl and every year many of those fans are scammed by conmen offering phony tickets and travel packages. TIP Merely because the advertisements for Super Bowl tickets and...
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...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 16, 2012 | Computer / Technology Scams, Facebook / Social Networking Scams, Identity Theft, Phishing / Password Scams, Scam of the day
Malware is the term for malicious software that you unwittingly download on your computer when you click on links in emails from scammers or fall prey to phishing and download the program from a phony website to which you were lured in the belief that it was a...
