by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 20, 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. | Apr 3, 2023 | Scam of the day
In the Scam of the day for March 5, 2021 I first told you about the arrest of Kofi Osei in Massachusetts who was charged with using romance scams to steal $535,000 from a woman in California and two women in Florida. He used fake names and after gaining their trust...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 8, 2023 | Scam of the day
Valentine’s Day is rapidly approaching. This is a very important day to many people including scammers and identity thieves who always manage to find an opportunity in whatever is current or popular to scam you out of your money. There are many...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 31, 2022 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about romance scams for many years and just a year ago I first warned you about the pig butchering scam. This scam originated in China in 2019 and is called sha zhu pan or pig butchering in English. The name is derived from the practice of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 29, 2022 | Scam of the day
The foreign exchange transaction app known as MetaTrader has been removed from the Apple App Store although it still is available at the Google Play store. The app has been used in the scam known as “pig butchering.” I first described pig butchering to...
