I was surprised to learn that Prince never instructed his legal team to develop a will or trust.
It’s important to have a will. That goes for rich people, and average citizens who own a small house, old car and work a regular job. Anyone with a net worth of a hundred thousand dollars or more should have a will – or better yet, a trust.
As someone who has traveled to more than 125 foreign countries for my work as a DEA agent and in private practice as a private investigator, I have seen every possible variation of the ugly American abroad.
It’s tax season again, and this year con-artists have really turned up their game: Claiming to be IRS agents, pretending to be local law enforcement officers, spoofing their caller ID to display 911.
In honor of Valentine’s Day, I’d like to discuss a common phenomenon in the online dating world – the long-distance love con. While both men and women fall for romantic scams, my client base is 80% female. I will direct this post to the ladies.
There is not a day that goes by in my office without a phone call from a female having an issue related to an Internet dating site. (We actually get about ten of these calls per week.) The purpose of these calls is that the woman wants us to verify whether a man she has been corresponding with is actually who his profile says he is.
Have you ever a sign like the one above while you are out driving? Ever wonder what the deal is with them? Recently, I’ve received a couple requests to write about this scam, so here’s the deal.
Nearly always handwritten on cheap plastic posterboard and zip-tied to signs and posts, these signs are found nationwide, utilizing different phone numbers.
To me it’s intuitively ridiculous. Why / how / would / could anyone even consider an “opportunity” like this, given the poor level of presentation?
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the Nigerian letter, a common example of the 419 or advanced-fee fraud.
As of late, advance-fee frauds have had somewhat of a resurgence. Last week I was contacted about one such scam, purported as “The National Lottery”.
This scam is gaining some serious momentum. Word is that people are positively responding in record numbers. It won’t be long until other scammers join the fray.
In any divorce due to an affair, you’re going to see financial infidelity – the hiding of assets.
Our case of the week involves a woman in exactly this situation.
This week, a fairly sophisticated businessman we’ll call “Trevor” came to our San Francisco office for tax relief help. He requested we research the best firm out there to assist people and businesseses when they fall behind on their taxes. Trevor’s visit would be brief with no retainer or funds being exchanged. The people that…
Our case of the week involves a three-generational family that had just lost the patriarch of the family, “George”, who died a few weeks ago at the age of 91. His wife of 66 years, “Lucille”, is in relatively good health at age 89. Unfortunately, she could not say the same about her financial portfolios…
This week I turned down 6 cases from people that wanted to hire us to find a missed “love connection”. While we are really good at helping people, when clients come to us with matters of love, sometimes we have to help them temper expectations with a dose of common sense. Here are some of…
