by admin | Jul 31, 2018 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning people about increasing reports of the nanny scam. Particularly during the summer, many people are looking for nanny or caregiving jobs, often going to legitimate websites such as care.com to look for nanny and baby...
by admin | Jul 30, 2018 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the Day comes from a Scamicide reader who had received a solicitation to be a mystery shopper. This is a scam about which I have written many times, but it deserves to be mentioned again because this scam is so prevalent and many people,...
by admin | Jul 29, 2018 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day was sent to Scamicide by one of its readers and is another version of the Nigerian email scam that continues to plague the Internet. Although it may seem that the Nigerian email scam began in the era of the Internet, the basis of the scam...
by admin | Jul 28, 2018 | Scam of the day
The 1985 Classic Rock song “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits goes a long way toward explaining the appeal of many scams. Too many of us somehow fall for outrageous scams that appear to offer the utterly impossible “money for nothing” and end...
by admin | Jul 28, 2018 | Scam of the day
After three years of litigation, charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission and the State of New York against Delaware Solutions have been settled. The charges related to a bogus debt collection scam operated by Delaware Solutions in which they falsely portrayed...
