by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 31, 2023 | Scam of the day
Recently a Scamicide reader told me that she had received an email from a friend of hers asking for a favor. Her friend needed the Scamicide reader to send a gift card to someone because her friend was unable to do so and needed to send the gift card right away. The...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 30, 2023 | Scam of the day
OneDrive is a popular cloud storage system of Microsoft that allows you to sync and save documents, pictures and files. Scammers send emails purporting to be from OneDrive, such as the one copied below that I received recently. If you click on the View File, you...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 29, 2023 | Scam of the day
Scammers are big fans of gift cards because they are easy to purchase, easy to send to the scammer and impossible to trace to the scammer. According to the FTC, consumers lost 233 million dollars to gift card scams last year. It is not even necessary for the scammer...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 28, 2023 | 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. | Jul 27, 2023 | Scam of the day
Everyone loves coupons and like many things in our lives, coupons which used to be found commonly in newspapers and magazines have migrated online. In recent years scammers have been perpetrating phony coupon scams on social media. Among the companies affected by...
