by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 21, 2026 | Scam of the day
Scammers are creating popup warnings that appear when you are browsing on a search engine such as Google Chrome that appears to be an official notification from Amazon or Apple that your account was just charged for a $149.99 purchase and providing a phone number to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 20, 2026 | Scam of the day
Deed fraud, which is also referred to as “property title theft” occurs when a criminal files a counterfeit deed to property owned by someone else and then either lives in the property or even sells the property to an unwary buyer. Deed fraud most commonly...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 19, 2026 | Scam of the day
Today’s scam of the day comes from a Scamicide subscriber who received a phone call from a scammer posing as a Chase bank employee working in its fraud department. The scammer told the targeted victim that someone had used her credit card in another city. The...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 18, 2026 | Scam of the day
Recently New York Attorney General Letitia James warned consumers about gold bar scams which primarily have targeted older Americans in which under a variety of excuses scammers posing as law enforcement convince their targeted victims that their savings are in...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 17, 2026 | Scam of the day
The recent blockbuster movie “The Odyssey” is attracting record crowds back to movie theaters as is the new Spiderman movie, “Spiderman – Brand New Day.” Both of these movies are only available in theaters and not at any legitimate...
