by admin | Aug 6, 2018 | Scam of the day
People buy dogs or other pets online and although they think they are taking proper precautions, they often end up getting nothing in return for the money that they wire to scammers who may have a website or other way of marketing their non-existent pets with...
by admin | Aug 5, 2018 | Scam of the day
The old adage (is there any other kind?) that curiosity killed the cat also applies to cybersecurity. The Multi-State Information and Analysis Center, a federal cybersecurity agency has issued an unusual warning about CDs with malware apparently being sent by regular...
by admin | Aug 5, 2018 | Scam of the day
The hospital at Boys Town, Nebraska recently announced that it had suffered a data breach in May although the data breach was not disclosed until now. Boys Town Nebraska is the national headquarters of Boys Town, which started as an orphanage for boys and became the...
by admin | Aug 3, 2018 | Scam of the day
The FBI recently issued a new warning about the worsening of what has come to be known as the Business Email Compromise. Generally this scam involves an email to the people who control payments at a targeted company. These people receive an email purportedly from the...
by admin | Aug 2, 2018 | Scam of the day
Many Scamicide readers are familiar with my advice that freezing your credit at the three major credit reporting agencies is the single best thing you can do to protect yourself from becoming a victim of identity theft. In the time since the massive Equifax data...
