by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 3, 2025 | Scam of the day
Last month I told you that the Delaware Attorney General recently issued a warning about a dramatic increase in scams involving Bitcoin ATMs. A report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) indicates a 1,000 % increase in money lost to scammers through Bitcoin ATMs...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 2, 2025 | Scam of the day
ABC News recently did a story entitled “Gold Grifters” in which they investigated scams involving people lured under false pretenses to cash in their savings, buy gold and deliver the gold to scammers. I have been warning people about this scam since I...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 8, 2024 | Scam of the day
The most effective scams are the ones that capitalize on real things that apply to you. Many people are familiar with the REAL ID, which is a new version of your driver’s license mandated by federal law. The federal REAL ID Act established new security...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 25, 2024 | Scam of the day
In the Scam of the day for May 7 2024 I told you that Ravinkle Mathon was arraigned in a Maryland court accused of attempting to scam an elderly man out of $200,000 in an elaborate scam that has increased dramatically in the last year. Police say that the scam began...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 5, 2024 | 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 3.9 billion dollars to cryptocurrency investment scams in 2023 In some instances, law...
