by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 23, 2023 | Scam of the day
Lottery scams are among the most common scams and although these scams take many different forms, they all have in common that you have won a lottery you never even entered (quite a feat) and that you must now pay money for either taxes or administrative fees in order...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 23, 2023 | Scam of the day
Last Friday, the FBI announced that it had recovered almost 3 million dollars worth of Bitcoins that were the proceeds of a scam operated by as of yet unidentified scammers perpetrating an elaborate phone scam on elderly Americans and first generation American...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 3, 2022 | Scam of the day
With the important mid-term elections rapidly approaching, scammers are busy taking advantage of this fact to scam people and make them victims of identity theft. One common election scam involves a telephone call you receive purportedly from one of the political...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 1, 2022 | Scam of the day
Recently the Virginia State Police issued a warning about an increase in phone scams in which the caller poses as a law enforcement officer who tells the targeted victim of the scam that his or her identity has been stolen and used by someone who has committed a crime...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 25, 2022 | Scam of the day
A famous bank robber was once asked why he robbed banks to which he responded, “because that is where the money is” which is why it is not surprising that scammers have used Amazon as the basis for a wide variety of scams due to so many people buying...
