by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 25, 2023 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about romance scams for many years. More recently I have been warning you for the last few years about the myriad of scams involving cryptocurrencies. In the last few years a new scam combining the romance scam and cryptocurrency scams has...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 20, 2023 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about romance scams for many years. More recently, I have been warning you for the last few years about the myriad of scams involving cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. In the last couple of years a new scam combining the romance scam and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 24, 2023 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about romance scams for many years. More recently I have been warning you for the last few years about the myriad of scams involving cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. In the last couple of years a new scam combining the romance scam and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 31, 2022 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about romance scams for many years and just a year ago I first warned you about the pig butchering scam. This scam originated in China in 2019 and is called sha zhu pan or pig butchering in English. The name is derived from the practice of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 29, 2022 | Scam of the day
The foreign exchange transaction app known as MetaTrader has been removed from the Apple App Store although it still is available at the Google Play store. The app has been used in the scam known as “pig butchering.” I first described pig butchering to...