by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 16, 2012 | Scam of the day, Senior Scams, Student Scams
Scammers take advantage of people who have lost pets and posted fliers or notices on line. They will be more than happy to return your pet to you for just enough money to cover the shipping costs. Sometimes you will even get a call purportedly from a legitimate...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 16, 2012 | Charity Scams, Investment Scams, Scam of the day
Scammers are nothing if not enterprising and they will take advantage of the charitable impulses people may have following a natural disaster, such as the Tsunami in Japan or Hurricane Katrina to set up phony charities to separate you from your money. Sometimes you...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 16, 2012 | Charity Scams, Investment Scams, Scam of the day
Although it may seem as if this scam only began in earnest with the invention of email, in fact, the scam itself is just a variation of a scam that is more than four hundred years old when it was called the Spanish Prisoner Con. At that time a letter was sent to the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 16, 2012 | Identity Theft, Investment Scams, Phishing / Password Scams, Scam of the day
This is another scam that keeps on returning with slight changes to appear to be something new and even legal, but if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is most likely a duck and a chain letter is easy to spot unless you are blinded by...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 16, 2012 | Investment Scams, Scam of the day
It worked for Charles Ponzi, it worked many years later for Bernie Madoff and it still works today. This scam is as profitable as it is simple. It is a classic pyramid scheme whereby you are promised returns that may appear too good to be true (and indeed that is...
