by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 6, 2026 | Scam of the day
Phishing emails are perhaps the most common way people are scammed or become victims of identity theft. Phishing emails appear to come from a legitimate company with which you may do business and lure you into clicking on malware infected links or provide personal...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 11, 2026 | Scam of the day
DocuSign is a company that provides technology for the transmission of contracts and other documents with features for electronic signatures and is used by many businesses. There has been an increasing number of scams in which phony DocuSign messages are being used...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 5, 2026 | Scam of the day
Recently, bakery owner Susan Limb of Maryland was disturbed when she received what appeared to be a call from her bank informing her that multiple fraudulent withdrawals had been made from her business account and that immediate action needed to be taken in order to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 16, 2026 | Scam of the day
The most effective scams take advantage of legitimate situations. Many people have gotten legitimate messages from Apple telling them that their iCloud storage under their present plan is full. If your iCloud storage is full you can still save your photos and videos...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 6, 2026 | Scam of the day
For years identity thieves and scammers would use skimmers installed at ATMs and on card processing equipment such as at gas pumps (where this is still a problem) and at retail checkouts to steal the debit or credit card information from the magnetic strip on the card...
