by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 24, 2023 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about romance scams for many years. More recently I have been warning you for the last few years about the myriad of scams involving cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. In the last couple of years a new scam combining the romance scam and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 15, 2022 | Scam of the day
Donald Milne III was recently convicted and sentenced to prison for operating a Ponzi scheme involving the sale of unregistered securities of Instaprin Pharmaceuticals, a company owned by him that purportedly was developing a fast-acting form of powdered aspirin that...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 12, 2021 | Scam of the day
Earlier this week, Jeff Carpoff was sentenced to the maximum sentence of thirty years in prison for operating a Ponzi scheme in which he scammed investors in his phony mobile solar generator business. Carpoff lured investors with falsified financial statements and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 15, 2021 | Scam of the day
Illegal pyramid schemes take many forms. Year after year since 2015 I have warned you about the Secret Sister Gift Exchange, which keeps reappearing each year around the holidays. It seems harmless enough when you see it come up in your email or on social media,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 8, 2021 | Scam of the day
Investment scammer Anthony Diaz was recently sentenced to 17.5 years in prison upon his conviction of eleven counts of fraud related to his scamming his clients out of millions of dollars. Diaz was a financial planner who convinced his clients to invest in high risk,...
