by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 28, 2024 | Scam of the day
Whatever is popular with many people is going to be popular with scammers and so it should come as no surprise that scammers are using YouTube as a platform for perpetrating a wide variety of scams. More than 2.7 billion people use YouTube making it the third most...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 29, 2024 | Scam of the day
In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settled a lawsuit against Raging Bull. Raging Bull tricked people into paying for their bogus investment strategies and recommendations and then locked their victims into costly subscription plans that were very difficult...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 9, 2024 | Scam of the day
What is old is new again. In 2008 when I wrote “The Truth About Avoiding Scams” I described High Yield Investment Program scams. These scams have many variations, but essentially the scammers promise that they have access to to secret investment...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 24, 2024 | Scam of the day
Scams know no political boundaries and while Scamicide focuses on scams affecting Americans, many of the scams and identity theft threats I discuss are found throughout the world. Recently my attention was drawn to a whistleblower in Ukraine who contacted...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 25, 2024 | Scam of the day
Recently in Ohio, Mubarik Ibrahim was sentenced to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay $840,000 in restitution for his part in romance scams he and other co-conspirators perpetrated between December of 2014 and April of 2022. He and his cohorts created fake...
