by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 20, 2023 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about romance scams for many years. More recently, I have been warning you for the last few years about the myriad of scams involving cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. In the last couple of years a new scam combining the romance scam and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 19, 2023 | Scam of the day
Posing as a famous person on social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram is quite simple to do and has proven to be quite lucrative for many scammers who are able to convince unsuspecting victims to rely on the phony accounts. Setting up a social media...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 18, 2023 | Scam of the day
When I first started Scamicide more than ten years and more than 4,000 Scams of the day ago, I wondered if I would run out of scams and identity theft schemes to discuss, but I am totally convinced that unfortunately there is no end to scams and while many scams are...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 17, 2023 | Scam of the day
Passwords are the key to accessing a myriad of your accounts, from Amazon to your bank to any company with which you do business online. Password security is obviously critically important, however, unfortunately, regardless of how protective you are as to the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 16, 2023 | Scam of the day
Last June I told you that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) civilly sued Michael and Valerie Rando and their company The Credit Game for operating a bogus credit repair scheme. Credit repair scams are very common as scammers take advantage of people with debt...
