by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 24, 2023 | 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. | Feb 13, 2023 | Scam of the day
I recently received an email from a Scamicide subscriber who was concerned about a possible scam. She received a text message that was obviously intended for someone else. Wanting to be a responsible person, she responded to the text message telling the sender that...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 22, 2023 | Scam of the day
Recently in Dallas, Emanuel Stanley Orji, a Nigerian associated with Nigerian organized crime was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for crimes related to romance scams he operated with others including his brother who had previously been convicted of the same...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 28, 2022 | Scam of the day
Recently in Los Angeles Ze’Shawn Stanley Campbell pleaded guilty to charges related to romance scams in which he stole as much as 1.5 million dollars from ten women. Campbell posing as a successful businessman and former Navy SEAL contacted his victims online...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 27, 2022 | Scam of the day
Laundering money derived from a scam is an essential element of many scams. Scammers can be extremely clever at distancing themselves from their scams in order to avoid detection. The people they enlist either as willing or unknowing participants in the laundering...
