by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 21, 2022 | Scam of the day
After two years of the pandemic the summer of 2022 is shaping up to be one where many people will be traveling. Renting vacation homes rather than going to hotels appears to be particularly popular this year. There are many excellent websites such as VRBO and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 20, 2022 | Scam of the day
Some scams are just so simple and effective that they remind us why scam artists are indeed the only criminals we refer to as artists. An old scam that is still being used effectively by scammers involves a flyer under your door in your hotel or motel room that...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 19, 2022 | Scam of the day
Over the years I have written numerous times about the problems presented by robocalls and with good reason. Automated robocalls which, for commercial purposes, are illegal, are the number one consumer complaint reported by the public to the Federal Trade Commission...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 18, 2022 | Scam of the day
There is a first for everything and today is a first in the more than ten years that I have been writing Scamicide. Today I am telling you about an email that looks like it is a phishing email from Facebook, but actually is legitimate. It has all of the markings of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 17, 2022 | Scam of the day
As we have seen far too often, scammers are quite capable of taking whatever is happening in society and turning it into an opportunity to scam people. Natural disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires are taken advantage of by scammers in a variety of ways and now...
