by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 29, 2026 | Scam of the day
Daejon Love and Taylor Jamie Chan were recently arrested and charged with operating an unusual version of a romance-investment scam in which they are alleged to have stolen $1.3 million from 26 women in California, Idaho, Washington and Oregon and the FBI believes...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 8, 2025 | Scam of the day
Last year Galina Bailey and her husband decided to invest their savings. Unfortunately, rather than consider established, legitimate investment advisers and companies they chose their invstment adviser through a post they saw on social media. When they realized...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 13, 2025 | Scam of the day
Federal Prosecutors in New York along with the SEC have brought both civil and criminal charges against Paul Regan accusing him of masterminding a massive Ponzi scheme in which he is alleged to have swindled 330 investors out of more than 63 million dollars. Regan...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 5, 2025 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about romance scams for many years. Romance scams generally follow a familiar pattern with the scammers establishing relationships with people, generally women, online through various legitimate dating websites and social media using fake...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 2, 2024 | Scam of the day
In 2022 I first told you that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settled its lawsuit against Warrior Trading, a company that put on “free” webinars that promised to show you “a quick and simple way to get your dream of day-trading success...