by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 18, 2021 | Scam of the day
SIM card swapping is a major problem. A Subscriber Identity Module, more commonly known as a SIM card, is an integrated circuit that stores information used to authenticate subscribers on mobile devices, such as a cell phone. The SIM card is able to be transferred...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 17, 2021 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day comes from a regular Scamicide reader and is another version of the Nigerian email scam that continues to plague the online community. Although it may seem that the Nigerian email scam began in the era of the Internet, the origin of the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 16, 2021 | Scam of the day
Just as about everything else we do today has migrated online so has buying a used car, however, buying a used car, which is always an activity ripe for scams, is particularly susceptible to scams when you are buying a used car online. This doesn’t mean that...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 15, 2021 | Scam of the day
I have been writing about scams related to Mavis Wanczyk for four years.. Many of you may not remember the name of Mavis Wanczyk, but she was the lucky winner of a 758 million dollar Powerball drawing in 2017. Not long after she claimed her prize, a scam started...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 14, 2021 | Scam of the day
I wrote about today’s Scam of the day previously this year but am repeating it again because I have heard from a number of Scamicide readers who have been targeted by this scam. The scam starts when you receive a message on Facebook Messenger that looks like...
