by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 11, 2022 | Scam of the day
Dropbox is a popular service that enables you to store photos, documents and other information in the cloud. I recently received an email from someone whose name I did not recognize that purported to include a document stored in Dropbox. I was instructed to click on...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 10, 2022 | Scam of the day
Meta, the parent company of Facebook has indicated that it will be notifying a million Facebook users that their account credentials may have been compromised through bogus tainted apps that were available from Alphabet, Inc.’s and Apple’s software...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 9, 2022 | 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. In the most common versions of this scam circulating on the Internet today, you are promised great...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 8, 2022 | Scam of the day
Tech support scams in which consumers are tricked by scammers into believing there is a problem with their computers that require the expensive services of the scammers is a major problem. Tech support scams are increasingly common and victimize consumers 60 years or...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 7, 2022 | Scam of the day
Impostor scams have long been among the most lucrative for scammers. While there are many variations of this scam, the most common variations have involved scammers calling their intended victims on the telephone posing as some governmental agency such as the IRS or...
