by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 24, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Facebook has just announced that through a technical flaw that first started over a year ago, the telephone numbers and email addresses of six million of its users were improperly provided to other Facebook users who downloaded contact data of their...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 23, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Many scams are old and have been with us for many years. In fact, the origin of the Nigerian email letter of today is found in a scam that began in the 1500s called the Spanish Prisoner Scam. Many of these old scams have evolved and changed over the years, but...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 22, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently, the celebrity gossip website TMZ released a somewhat slightly censored version of a nude video of model Kate Upton topless on a horse. The video was actually taken a couple of years ago during a photoshoot for a magazine, but only has become public now. ...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 21, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Regular readers of Scamicide (which I hope you all will be) are familiar with the many problems that have come with the use of Java software. Java is a very popular software made by Oracle. Unfortunately, it is also a software that has proven to be very vulnerable...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 20, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Like an old friend or perhaps a bad penny, the Nigerian email scam by which you receive an email promising riches under various pretexts such as an inheritance or in return for simple assistance in moving money out of Nigeria keeps on coming back. A copy of one of...
