by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 26, 2024 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about sextortion scams for eight years. Recently, the FBI reported that reported incidents of teen sextortion had increased 20% last year and the number of actual cases is probably higher due to the crime often not being reported. In...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 27, 2023 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about sextortion scams for seven years. Last December, the FBI issued a new warning about sextortion. Generally sextortion scams begin with an email in which you are told that your computer and web cam have been hacked and that the scammers...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 11, 2023 | Scam of the day
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to take the faces and images of people in photographs and videos and put them into realistic appearing pornographic videos has been with us since 2017 although until recently it had been primarily used to create...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 1, 2023 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about sextortion scams for seven years. Last January, the FBI issued a new warning about sextortion https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdin/pr/fbi-and-partners-issue-national-public-safety-alert-sextortion-schemes and more recently, the South...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 26, 2022 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about sextortion scams for seven years. Earlier this week the FBI issued a new warning about sextortion. Generally sextortion scams begin with an email in which you are told that your computer and web cam have been hacked and that the scammers...
