by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 24, 2022 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has recently settled its lawsuit against Warrior Trading, a company that put on “free” webinars that promised to dhow you “a quick and simple way to get your dream of day-trading success going.” Warrior...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 11, 2022 | Scam of the day
Convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff who stole 50 billion dollars from unsuspecting victims may be the last person from whom you would accept investing advice, but in fact, his advice, as contained in a 2014 jailhouse interview Madoff gave to the Wall Street Journal...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 6, 2022 | Scam of the day
Many people are probably not familiar with forex trading. Forex trading is the name for the very speculative investing in trading foreign currencies. It definitely is not an investment for inexperienced investors and while it certainly is legal, there have been many...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 15, 2022 | Scam of the day
Recently a lawsuit was filed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Attorneys General of 27 states against precious metals company Safeguard Metals LLC and its owner Jeffrey Santulan who also used the name Jeffrey Hill accusing the company of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 14, 2022 | Scam of the day
Social media is incredibly popular and, as I have warned you many times, anything popular with the public will always be popular with scammers and so it was not surprising when a recent report of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) indicated that in 2021 scammers...