by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 21, 2021 | Scam of the day
Identity theft can be high tech, low tech or no tech. Stealing mail from mailboxes for purposes of identity theft has been done by identity thieves for years. Numerous times over the last ten years I have warned you about the danger of having your mail, such as...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 20, 2021 | Scam of the day
As the federal government and more and more state governments along with private employers are requiring their employees to be vaccinated from the Coronavirus as a condition of employment, scammers are taking advantage of this situation to contact people with phishing...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 19, 2021 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is about a phishing email presently circulating that attempts to lure you into clicking on a link in order to continue using your AOL account. Millions of people still use AOL. One reason for this is that you get greater email privacy...
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...
