by admin | Jul 26, 2018 | Scam of the day
Ransomware is the name for malware that once installed on a computer, often unwittingly through clicking on links in spear phishing emails, encrypts and locks all of the victim’s data. The cybercriminal then threatens to destroy the data unless a bounty is...
by admin | Jul 25, 2018 | Scam of the day
As the culmination of a five year joint investigation by numerous federal agencies led by the Justice Department, twenty-one individuals were sentenced last week for their roles in a huge multinational telephone fraud operation in which the callers in India posed as...
by admin | Jul 24, 2018 | Scam of the day
Scams are constantly evolving and turning up in different incarnations. In fact, the Nigerian email scam of today can be traced back to a scam operated during the 1500s which has come to be known as the Spanish Prisoner Scam. Today’s scam of the day has been...
by admin | Jul 24, 2018 | Scam of the day
I have been warning of you of the dangers of cars being able to be stolen by hacking remote fobs for three years since first I wrote about the story of the theft of a Jaguar automobile valued at more than $123,000 right from a Jaguar dealership in Auckland, New...
by admin | Jul 22, 2018 | Scam of the day
It must be phishing season. It was just a few days ago that I described a Chase phishing email and today’s Scam of the day is about a phishing email that purports to be from American Express. It was brought to my attention by a Scamicide reader who received it...
