by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 27, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The Securities and Exchange Commission has just issued a warning to investors about scammers who are purporting to sell shares in companies such as Facebook and Twitter in advance of the Initial Public Offerings of the stock of these companies. As with many scams,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 26, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Craigslist can provide an easy opportunity for someone to legitimately and economically do business. Unfortunately, it also can provide an easy opportunity for scam artists. The latest scam involving Craigslist around the country occcurs when a scammer takes the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 25, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Not even the dead are immune from identity theft and this particular type of identity theft is now on the rise. One way this occurs is when scammers merely check out the latest obituaries and then go to a free totally available data bank called the Death Master File...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 22, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Many scams lure us in because they seem so close to legitimate business opportunities. It is true that companies pay people to advertise their logos in vinyl decals on individuals’ cars. The vinyl decal is called an auto wrap and there are companies that...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 22, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The SEC has just filed charges against two brothers in England alleging that they scammed 75,000 people through a scheme in which they touted a penny stock picking robot that they had developed that could identify stocks about to double in value. The two...
