Randy Meier

1 week ago | clintonherald.com | Randy Meier

We pay particular attention this time of year to the signposts of spring, such as daffodil and tulip blooms, thunderstorms, and the return of hummingbirds. One signpost we don’t want to see, but nevertheless accompanies spring weather is the return of door-to-door peddlers, solicitors, or “transient merchants” to borrow a legal term. A DeWitt woman contacted me last week to make the first report of a solicitor of the season.

2 weeks ago | bellevueheraldleader.com | Randy Meier

A Clinton man came within moments of losing over $10,000 to a Bitcoin kiosk after his online search for a phone number landed him on a phony website. I like to use his story because it pulls together elements of several commonly used scams. David (not his real name) is a seventy-plus-year-old man and subscribes to streaming services through Roku. He received notice of a planned price increase in one of the streaming channels to which he subscribed and decided to cancel that channel subscription.

4 weeks ago | maqnews.com | Randy Meier

AClinton man came within moments of losing over $10,000 to a Bitcoin kiosk after his online search for a phone number landed him on a phony website. I like to use his story because it pulls together elements of several commonly used scams. David (not his real name) is a seventy-plus-year-old man and subscribes to streaming services through Roku. He received notice of a planned price increase in one of the streaming channels to which he subscribed and decided to cancel that channel subscription.

1 month ago | clintonherald.com | Randy Meier

A Clinton man came within moments of losing over $10,000 to a Bitcoin kiosk after his online search for a phone number landed him on a phony website. I like to use his story because it pulls together several threads commonplace in ScamWorld. David (not his real name) is a seventy-plus-year-old man and subscribes to streaming services through Roku. He received notice of a planned price increase in one of the streaming channels to which he subscribed. David decided to cancel that channel subscription.

1 month ago | maqnews.com | Randy Meier

Serving on a jury in judgment of your peers is one of the basic civic obligations we owe to our republic. Everyone knows this is a serious matter, and we pay attention when summoned for this duty. Scammers know we pay attention when someone talks about jury duty, so they long ago came up with the jury duty scam. And criminals have been targeting Clinton County folks with that scam on a pretty regular basis in the last several months.