by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 12, 2019 | Scam of the day, Uncategorized
So many scams start with a phone call, whether it is to sell you phony tech support that you don’t need, trick you into contributing to a phony charity or any other of the myriad of scams that are perpetrated over the phone including many that are illegal...
by admin | Jul 13, 2018 | Scam of the day
YouMail is an app that provides visual voicemail and robocall blocking software for cell phones. The company also compiles data on the most prevalent robocalls each month. Recently they released their data for the most common robocalls for last month. Automated...
by admin | Apr 24, 2018 | Scam of the day
Automated prerecorded robocalls which, for commercial purposes are always illegal, are the number one consumer complaint reported by the public to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and are used to perpetrate a wide variety of frauds at a cost of approximately 9.5...
by admin | Jun 6, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
A federal court in California recently ruled that Aaron Michael Jones along with nine affiliated companies were responsible for billions of illegal robocalls. The court issued a permanent injunction against Jones and the companies as well as fining Jones 2.7 million...
by admin | Apr 25, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
A recent survey done by Harris Poll on behalf of Truecaller, a company that provides phone security services concludes that during the last twelve months approximately 22.1 million Americans were victims of various phone scams both on their landlines and smartphones...
