by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 22, 2020 | Scam of the day
Police in New Delhi, India recently arrested more than fifty people operating a criminal call center from which they would make calls around the world scamming people into paying money under various pretenses. According to the New Delhi police more than 4,500...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 1, 2020 | Scam of the day
Last week the Senate Aging Committee released its annual report in which it indicated that fraudulent phone calls where scammers pose as Social Security Administration employees asking for personal information were the number one phone scam last year. Phony calls...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 12, 2019 | Scam of the day
Everything old becomes new again and this is true about the single ring phone call scam I first warned you about in 2014 that is having a resurgence which has prompted the FCC to issue a warning about it. “The Postman Always Rings Twice” was a classic...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 3, 2019 | Scam of the day
Impostor scams where the scammers pose as IRS agents, Social Security employees, law enforcement and many others are a staple of scammers. They often make these calls from large call centers that can be located anywhere in the world. Through “spoofing”...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 13, 2019 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has just announced that it is mailing refund checks to the victims of a tech support scam perpetrated by Troth Solutions. The funds for this refund are derived from a settlement between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) the State...
