by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 9, 2024 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about romance scams for many years. Romance scams generally follow a familiar pattern with the scammers establishing relationships with people, generally women, online through various legitimate dating websites and social media using fake...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 8, 2024 | 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. In the last few years a new scam combining the romance scam and cryptocurrency scams...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 25, 2024 | Scam of the day
Recently in Ohio, Mubarik Ibrahim was sentenced to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay $840,000 in restitution for his part in romance scams he and other co-conspirators perpetrated between December of 2014 and April of 2022. He and his cohorts created fake...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 25, 2023 | Scam of the day
Romance scams continue to be a major problem. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Americans lost more money to romance scams last year than to any other scam and the situation is getting more serious. In 2022, nearly 70,000 people reported a romance...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 28, 2023 | Scam of the day
The FBI recently issued a warning about the wrong number text message scam. The scam starts when you receive a text message that was obviously intended for someone else. Wanting to be a responsible person, many people respond to the text message telling the sender...
