by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 31, 2025 | Scam of the day
Feng Chen and his wife Tianqiong Xu were living in Frisco Texas and operating a pig butchering cryptocurrency scam from 2021 through 2024 according to the FBI. The FBI had been investigating the couple since 2021, but by the time they got an indictment for wire fraud...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 30, 2025 | Scam of the day
It seems like every week I am reporting to you about another major data breach. This week the victim is LexisNexis Risk Solutions which is a data broker that gathers consumers’ personal data and provides it to its corporate clients for purposes of risk...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 29, 2025 | Scam of the day
In the Scam of the day for March 5, 2025 I informed you that crafts supply store Joann Fabrics has filed for bankruptcy and would be closing all of its stores. Scammers were quick to take advantage of this by setting up phony Joann Fabrics websites offering tremendous...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 28, 2025 | Scam of the day
USA Today recently did a story about scammers using phony customer service numbers to scam people. Regular readers of Scamicide might remember I have been warning you about this scam since 2017. Scammers are increasingly setting up phony websites that appear to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 27, 2025 | Scam of the day
More than forty-two million Americans have student loans with an outstanding balance of more than 1.4 trillion dollars so it is no surprise that scammers are focusing their attention on these students and former students through scams that falsely promise to provide...
