by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 13, 2024 | Scam of the day
She’s back! Actually, she has never left. I have been writing about scams related to Mavis Wanczyk for seven years but recently I have received emails from Scamicide readers telling me about various new incarnations of a variety of scams that share the same...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 15, 2024 | Scam of the day
In the Scam of the day for May 27, 2015, I first told you that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had obtained an injunction stopping an international sweepstakes scam based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida that scammed more than 28 million dollars from unwary victims...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 12, 2024 | Scam of the day
Back in 2015, I told you that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had obtained an injunction stopping an international sweepstakes scam based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida that scammed more than 28 million dollars from unwary victims around the world in the United...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 11, 2024 | Scam of the day
Last December I told you that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was reporting an increase in reports of scammers calling people on the telephone and telling them that they have won one of the Publishers Clearing House lotteries, but that they have to pay fees or...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 9, 2024 | Scam of the day
Impostor scams have long been among the most lucrative for scammers. While there are many variations of this scam, the most common variations have involved scammers calling their intended victims on the telephone posing as some governmental agency such as the IRS or...
