by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 28, 2023 | Scam of the day
In a new scam, scammers posing as local humane societies or animal control officers are calling pet owners who have lost pets telling them that they have found the pet and ask for an immediate payment over the phone in order to retrieve their lost pet. Recently, the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 17, 2023 | Scam of the day
Impostor scams have long been among the most lucrative for scammers. While there are many variations of this scam, the most common variations have involved scammers calling their intended victims on the telephone posing as some governmental agency such as the IRS or...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 16, 2023 | Scam of the day
Remote access scams are increasing and when a scammer posing as your bank lures you into providing remote access to your bank account, the result can be disastrous. In one instance, the scam started with a phone call from a scammer posing as an employee of Avast, a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 22, 2023 | Scam of the day
For many years Medicare used a person’s Social Security number as his or her Medicare number which put Medicare recipients in serious danger of identity theft. Medicare resisted changing the Medicare number to a safer random number for many years. Finally, in...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 19, 2023 | Scam of the day
Scammers, in general have no empathy and a new scam being reported by the Federal Trade Commission is a good example of that fact. People who have very recently lost a family member are getting phone calls purporting to be from the funeral home handling the funeral...
