by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 15, 2024 | Scam of the day
Every year the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) releases its list of the biggest scams of the year. 2023 was a banner year for scammers with victims reporting losing 10 billion dollars to scams which is 1.2 billion dollars more than in 2022 and the true amount of money...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 14, 2024 | Scam of the day
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) more scams in the United States are started on social media than on any other platform at a cost for the last two years of 2.7 billion dollars and that figure is probably low because many victims, often out of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 25, 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. In the last few years a new scam combining the romance scam and cryptocurrency scams has...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 29, 2023 | Scam of the day
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) more scams are started on social media than on any other platform at a cost for the last two years of 2.7 billion dollars and that figure is probably low because many victims, often out of embarrassment, do not report...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 27, 2023 | Scam of the day
I have written many times in the last ten years about Ponzi schemes because this effective investment scam that actually was around for many years before Charles Ponzi came to be identified with it is still being used to victimize many people. Here is a link to an...
