by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 21, 2026 | Scam of the day
The much anticipated November elections are coming soon and there is heightened interest in these midterm elections and, of course, when people are interested in something, scammers take advantage of that interest to formulate scams related to that interest. Today...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 20, 2026 | Scam of the day
In recent years, I have written many times about the myriad of cryptocurrency scams that have cost people billions of dollars. According to the FBI, Americans lost more than 7.28 billion dollars to cryptocurrency investment scams last year. In some instances, law...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 19, 2026 | 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 18, 2026 | Scam of the day
Imposter scams have long been among the most lucrative for scammers. While there are many variations of this scam, the most common variations have involved scammers emailing their victims posing as a popular company with which we all do business or calling their...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 17, 2026 | Scam of the day
She’s back! Actually, she has never left. I have been writing about scams related to Mavis Wanczyk for nine years but recently I have received emails from Scamicide readers telling me about various new incarnations of a variety of scams that share the same...
