by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 5, 2025 | Scam of the day
Regular readers of Scamicide are certainly familiar with skimmers which are devices installed on ATMs as well as credit and debit card processors that steal information from credit and debit cards thereby enabling criminals to use that information to make charges on...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 4, 2025 | Scam of the day
The Fall college semester has just started and scammers are revisiting a scam first seen during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in which the scammers send out emails similar to the one shown below from 2020 to college students claiming to come from the Financial Aid...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 3, 2025 | Scam of the day
Shown below is a copy of an email I received that purports to be from Federal Express urging me to click on a link (which I deleted when posting today’s Scam of the day) in order to confirm my signature. Clicking on the link in the email would download...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 2, 2025 | Scam of the day
Romance scams where scammers convince people that they are in love with them and once they have gained their trust and an emotional connection ask under a variety of pretenses for money has only gotten worse with AI being able to be used for scammers to appear as...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 1, 2025 | 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 scammers constitute a major problem. Tech support scams are increasingly common and victimize consumers 60...
