by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 7, 2019 | Scam of the day
I first told you about the Wyze Money scam three years ago when, at the request of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a temporary restraining order was issued by a judge in the Federal District Court for Arizona temporarily shutting down the operation of a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 20, 2019 | Scam of the day
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has recently filed criminal charges against investment adviser William Neil “Doc” Gallagher who has been accused by the SEC of operating a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme in which he victimized mostly elderly...
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...
