by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 3, 2023 | Scam of the day
Recently Jared Wilkes Post was sentenced in the Alaska Federal Court to prison for defrauding banks and people of more than $100,000 through a sophisticated check kiting scam. For four years Post contact people on social media and convinced them to share their bank...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 8, 2022 | Scam of the day
Counterfeit check scams take many different forms, but their most common form is where you are provided a check, under a wide variety of pretenses, for more than you would be paid and asked to wire the difference to the person giving you the check. The check is...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 30, 2020 | Scam of the day
As I first reported to you in January of 2017, Western Union, which provides money wiring services around the world settled fraud charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Justice Department and a number of states’ Attorneys General. Under the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 23, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The coin of the realm of scammers for many years has been money wired by Western Union or other such services because once the funds have been wired, it is almost impossible to retrieve when the victim learns he or she has been scammed. Now, however, many scammers...
