by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 21, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Following closely on the heels of the theft of the medical records of approximately 780,000 people in Utah that I reported on in the “scam of the day” for April 12th, another major example of medical identity theft has occurred, this time in South Carolina...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 20, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Many people are receiving emails purportedly from Verizon Wireless claiming extremely large amounts owed. I received one of these phony bills today indicating that I owed almost $2,000 in charges. The phony bills look exactly like a real Verizon bill and many...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 19, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
It is bad enough when you lose money to a Ponzi schemer such as Bernie Madoff who never invests the money, but merely uses the funds of new investors to pay off earlier investors until, inevitably, the house of cards falls and everyone loses. But to make things...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 18, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
There is nothing new about phony lottery scams. They are one of the most prevalent and common scams every year preying upon both the greed and the lack of knowledge of their victims who often don’t stop to consider how it is impossible to win a contest that you...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 17, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Gift cards have been a source of numerous scams with the most recent being a scam that comes in the form of a text message where the potential victim is told that they have won a free gift card as a result of a contest in which they were automatically enrolled when...
