Fraud and “con” schemes

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haitians targets in advance fee fraud visa scheme

February 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments

The United States Embassy in Port au Prince, Haiti is warning that there is a new advance fee fraud scheme targeting Haitians and Haitian Americans. Haitians, and Americans who are sponsoring their Haitian relatives, are being asked to pay fees up front in exchange for a guarantee that they can bring up to five of [...]

Diversity Visas or the Green Card Lottery

May 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment

At present the United State DV lottery (DV stands for Diversity Visa), also known as the “green card lottery” is done online. The next DV or diversity visa lottery, (also known as the “green card lottery”) is open to application in the late fall each year. Here is the link to the information about this [...]

Beware mortgage foreclosure confidence schemes

December 1st, 2007 · No Comments

With foreclosures on the rise due to the “subprime” mortgage meltdown there are more and more credit repair and foreclosure rescue “specialists” that promise to solve the problems of the defaulting homeowner. Some of these individuals are providing their clients with valuable expertise and some relief (due to the overreaching actions of the lenders and [...]

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Alex T. Roshuk is a New York State attorney. He has two law degrees from McGill University, Faculty of Law, Montreal, Canada (B.C.L./LL.B., 1997) and has been practicing law in New York City since 1998 advising businesses, individuals and not-for-profit organizations in transactional and litigation related matters. He was the first legal adviser to the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (Wikipedia) from 2003 to 2005 assisting with the organization's tax exempt application to the IRS, trademark applications, and various copyright related issues. Prior to becoming a lawyer Mr. Roshuk worked in the entertainment industry as a film editor, radio announcer, television producer and director and as an administrator and/or director of numerous not-for-profit media arts organizations in the United States and Canada. He studied electrical engineering at Princeton University in the 1970s. He currently lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn.