by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 21, 2023 | Scam of the day
The Hattiesburg, Mississippi police department recently issued a warning about increased reports of a scam in which scammers appear to share posts on Facebook buy-sell groups about a missing child. Quite often, people on the buy-sell group will share the post in an...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 22, 2021 | Scam of the day
Costco is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only big-box retail stores and is the fifth largest retailer in the world. Due to its popularity, it is not surprising that scammers have recently been using it as a basis for a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 22, 2019 | Scam of the day
According to a new report recently released by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reports of the grandparent scam rose to almost 20,000 during a fifteen month period from late 2017 through 2018 at a cost of approximately 42 million dollars which is double the amount...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 22, 2019 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about phony kidnapping scams, also known as virtual kidnapping, for seven years, but recently there has been a resurgence of this particular scam around the country. The scam starts with a telephone call informing the person answering the...
by admin | Feb 27, 2018 | Scam of the day
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is issuing a new warning about quizzes on Facebook that appear innocuous, but could potentially be quite sinister. I have written about many Facebook scams over the years including the May 5, 2017 Scam of the day involving a Facebook...
