by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 31, 2025 | Scam of the day
Natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes are common occurrences. Hurricane Melissa has wreaked havoc in Jamaica. Natural disasters, such as hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes and earthquakes bring out the best in people who want to donate to charities to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 30, 2025 | Scam of the day
The headline of this Scam of the day may be a bit confusing because dual factor authentication is not itself a scam, but rather a tool to avoid being scammed. It is not unusual for passwords to be compromised, particularly if you use the same password for all of your...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 29, 2025 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is one that I have been warning you about since 2012, but lately there has been a resurgence of this scam as indicated by the number of Scamicide readers who have inquired about this scam after receiving a confusing notice. The scam...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 28, 2025 | Scam of the day
PayPal is a popular payment service used successfully by many people particularly when making purchases through eBay. However, because it is so popular with the public, it is also popular with scammers who over the years have created numerous PayPal based scams about...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 27, 2025 | Scam of the day
An analysis of the health care breach data base maintained by the Department of Health and Human Services done by Security Week indicated that in 2024 there were 720 data breaches affecting as many as 186 million people. And just this week we learned of a data breach...
