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...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 8, 2024 | 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. In the last few years a new scam combining the romance scam and cryptocurrency scams...
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...
