by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 11, 2019 | Scam of the day
Holiday shopping online is extremely convenient, but it can also be extremely dangerous. Scammers construct many phony online shopping websites to lure you into providing your credit or debit card information. Sometimes they mimic legitimate websites and it is easy...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 10, 2019 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day was forwarded to me by a regular Scamicide reader. It is another phishing email intended to lure you into clicking on links that will either download malware on to your electronic device or prompt you to provide personal information used...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 10, 2019 | Scam of the day
Scamicide has just passed an important milestone with the publication of our 3,000th Scam of the day. Scamicide has been helping people avoid scams and identity theft schemes since 2011 and has been in the forefront of making people aware of the many scams and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 9, 2019 | Scam of the day
Phishing emails, by which scammers and identity thieves attempt to lure you into either clicking on links contained within the email which download malware or providing personal information that will be used to make you a victim of identity theft, are nothing new. ...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 8, 2019 | Scam of the day
Impostor scams in which the scammer contacts his or her targeted victim posing as a governmental agency, such as the IRS demanding payment to resolve a bogus claim are very common, however, a new version of the impostor scam raises this scam to a new, frightening...
