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...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 1, 2022 | Scam of the day
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently charged Allen C. Giltman, a former registered investment professional with operating a fraudulent scheme to lure investors into purchasing non-existent certificates of deposit (CDs). The SEC alleges Giltman and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 16, 2022 | 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 such as Bitcoin. In the last couple of years a new scam combining the romance scam and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 4, 2021 | Scam of the day
In 2019, I told you about criminal charges filed against investment adviser William Neil “Doc” Gallagher who operated a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme in which he victimized mostly elderly clients since 2014. Gallagher solicited his clients through...
