by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 28, 2026 | Scam of the day
Phony text messaging, called smishing, which purport to be from your credit card company is a scam about which I have been warning you for years, but is a scam that has dramatically increased recently due to AI. Scammers are harvesting vacation photos from social...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 23, 2026 | Scam of the day
In recent years, I have written many times about the myriad of cryptocurrency scams that have cost people billions of dollars. According to the FBI, Americans lost more than 11.36 billion dollars to cryptocurrency investment scams in 2025 which represents a 22%...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 17, 2026 | Scam of the day
It is bad enough to be scammed, but to have to pay income taxes on money you have been scammed out of certainly adds insult to injury. Prior to 2017 if a scammer convinced you to take money out of your retirement accounts and send the funds to the scammer, you could...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 1, 2026 | Scam of the day
Every season is scam season and every day provides unique opportunity for scam artists, the only criminals that we call artists, to try to scam us out of our hard earned money. Here are a few scams that you should be aware of that are related to the upcoming Fourth...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 28, 2026 | Scam of the day
It is late May and many of us are thinking about taking our summer vacations that we look forward to all year, however, scammers are also taking advantage of our vacation interest to scam us and the companies we work for. One new scam involves your getting an email...
