by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 16, 2019 | Scam of the day
The Bakersfield, California Police Department recently issued the following warning on its Twitter account: “We have received reports of community members being asked to donate to the Shop with a Cop program via phone calls. We have confirmed this is not coming...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 6, 2019 | Scam of the day
Publishers Clearing House, the sponsor of some of the most popular legitimate lotteries in the country no longer limits its contests to one or two a year, but has numerous lotteries each month. Recently there has been an increase in reports of scammers calling people...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 4, 2019 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about phony kidnapping scams, also known as virtual kidnapping, for seven years, but recently the FBI has warned people about a new twist on this old scam. The scam starts with a telephone call informing the person answering the phone that a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 9, 2019 | Scam of the day
Tech support scams are among the most common of scams and they cost consumers millions of dollars each year. In the most common variations of this scam, the victim is scammed into responding to a pop-up on his or her computer or a telephone call purportedly from one...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 7, 2019 | Scam of the day
Over the years I have written numerous times about the problems presented by robocalls and with good reason. Automated robocalls which, for commercial purposes, are illegal, are the number one consumer complaint reported by the public to the Federal Trade Commission...
