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April 25, 2013 – Associated Press hack attack – what it means to you

by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 25, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related

On Tuesday, the Twitter account of the Associated Press (AP) was hacked into and a phony message describing a terrorist attack on the White House was sent out to the close to two million followers of AP’s Twitter account.  Immediately thereafter the Dow Jones...

Scam of the day – April 24, 2013 – Email account scam

by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 24, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related

This is a scam that I have described previously on Scamicide, but it bears repeating, particularly because I recently received an email that is shown below, which means that other people are also receiving this scam email.  The message line of the email is entitled...

Scam of the day – April 23, 2013 – Publishers Clearing House prize scam

by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 23, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related

It is impossible to win a lottery that you have not entered, yet scam artists constantly and successfully manage to convince people that they have won various lotteries, such as the Jamaican lottery about which I have written many times and which you can read about in...

Scam of the day – April 22, 2013 – Urgent Java updates

by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 22, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related

Computer hackers are constantly exploiting vulnerabilities in software to attack your computer and steal information from it that can make you a victim of identity theft.   The dirty little secret is that computer security software is not very effective against the...

Scam of the day – April 21, 2013 – The latest Nigerian email scam

by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 21, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related

We are all familiar with the variations of the Nigerian letter scam which has been with us for years and, in fact, owes its origin to a similar scam that was being done in the 1500s when it was called the Spanish Prisoner Scam.  Generally, the scam starts with an...
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