by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 28, 2022 | Scam of the day
Bumble is a popular online dating app so it is not surprising that scammers use it as a “hook” for scams. Anything popular with the public is fodder for scammers. Recently people have been reporting receiving text messages in which the scammer sends a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 14, 2022 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about sextortion scams for seven years, but it is important to alert parents about a new development in this scam. Generally, sextortion scam begins with an email in which you are told that your computer and web cam have been hacked and that...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 10, 2021 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about sextortion scams for six years, but it is important to remind you again because according to the FBI, there has been a dramatic increase in this scam. The sextortion scam begins with an email in which you are told that your computer and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 12, 2021 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning members of the LGBTQ+ community about extortion scams turning up on LGBTQ+ dating apps such as Grindr and Feeld. Unlike the typical romance scam about which I have written many times, in these new scams the scammers...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 3, 2021 | Scam of the day
Personal information including names, email addresses, city, state and zip codes, dating preferences, birth dates, marital status, dating preferences and body details of 2.28 million users of the dating site MeetMindful have recently been discovered to have been made...
