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...
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...
