by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 10, 2021 | Scam of the day
Even before the Coronavirus pandemic, unemployment benefit scams were already a major problem costing the states and federal government billions of dollars each year. Part of the problem is that the federal government requires the states to pay claims within a few...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 2, 2021 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has designated February 1-5th as Identity Theft Awareness Week. The Coronavirus pandemic has contributed to a dramatic increase in identity theft with the the FTC reporting that it received approximately 1.4 million complaints of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 18, 2021 | Scam of the day
Income tax identity theft, by which identity thieves file phony income tax returns with counterfeit W-2s using the Social Security number and name of their victim is still a major problem for the IRS and taxpayers costing us all billions of dollars each year....
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 30, 2020 | Scam of the day
Just when you thought the financial problems tied to the Coronavirus pandemic were lessened a bit by the federal government’s program of payments of up to $1,200 to eligible people, we are now seeing a double whammy of increases in income tax identity theft...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 14, 2020 | Scam of the day
A recent report of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) had some good news in regard to what it estimated was the amount of income tax identity theft that the IRS had been able to stop prior to paying money to the income tax identity thieves. Unfortunately, the...
