by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 21, 2022 | Scam of the day
As was made abundantly clear by 2017’s massive Equifax data breach which affected 148 million people and was perpetrated by hackers exploiting a vulnerability in Apache software for which Apache had already issued a security update, but Equifax failed to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 20, 2022 | Scam of the day
Being in debt is a difficult situation faced by many people. Unfortunately, it can be made much worse when debtors are targeted by unscrupulous scammers posing as debt relief specialists who steal from the people in debt. In the Scam of the day for July 18, 2020 I...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 19, 2022 | Scam of the day
Scamicide has often been among the very first to report about new scams, but generally we report on them as they first occur. Today however, we are warning you about a scam that we are confident will be happening, but has not yet been reported. The federal...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 18, 2022 | Scam of the day
Counterfeit check scams take many different forms, but their most common form is where you are provided a check, under a wide variety of pretenses, for more than you would be paid and asked to wire the difference back to the person giving you the check. The check is...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 17, 2022 | Scam of the day
Criminals around the country are increasingly stealing mail with checks in them from U.S. Postal Service mailboxes, “washing” the checks with simple nail polish remover to remove the name of the person or company to whom the check was made out and then...
