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...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 5, 2022 | Scam of the day
Brian Wedgeworth pleaded guilty recently to perpetrating a romance scam in which he scammed more than 30 women out of more than 1.3 million dollars. Wedgeworth posed as a doctor on various online dating services. Once he gained their confidence he manipulated them...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 14, 2022 | Scam of the day
Romance scams continue to be a major problem. As bad as they were prior to the pandemic, these scams increased dramatically during the Coronavirus pandemic. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Americans lost more money to romance scams last year than to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 14, 2022 | Scam of the day
Social media is incredibly popular and, as I have warned you many times, anything popular with the public will always be popular with scammers and so it was not surprising when a recent report of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) indicated that in 2021 scammers...
