by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 2, 2019 | Scam of the day
Had he not died in 1949, today would have been Charles Ponzi’s 137th birthday. Scam artists around the world should probably honor the man who perfected the scheme that bears his name that has been used by many scam artists, the only criminals we refer to as...
by admin | Apr 27, 2018 | Scam of the day
Investment adviser, Amrit Chahal has hit the trifecta with fraud charges being brought against him by the SEC, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. All of the charges relate to Chahal, an...
by admin | Apr 20, 2018 | Scam of the day
SunTrust, the country’s 12th largest bank with more than 200 billion dollars in assets and 1,236 branches disclosed yesterday that it was victimized by a data breach in which customer data of approximately 1.5 million of its customers was stolen. What makes this...
by admin | Jun 21, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
You may remember the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement by which the major tobacco companies settled a class action brought against them by the Attorneys General of 46 states in regard to the dangers posed by cigarette smoking and the misrepresentation of those...
by admin | Dec 28, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Toby Pustovit, a 21 year old Oregon stock manipulator was sentenced recently to four years and three months for operating a pump and dump stock scam. Pump and dump stock scams have been with us for many years, but they have become easier to perpetrate through the...
