by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 28, 2024 | Scam of the day
Today is Black Friday, the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season although I have been seeing holiday shopping displays since Halloween. The fact that Black Friday is such a huge shopping day is not lost on scammers who will be as pervasive as ever. Over the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 23, 2024 | 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. | Dec 4, 2023 | 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. | Nov 29, 2021 | Scam of the day
Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre recently identified more than 4,000 online retailers who had their payment systems hacked in a manner that enabled the hackers to steal credit card and debit card information used by unwary online shoppers. Most of the...
by admin | Sep 30, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Fast food chain Sonic, which has more than 3,500 locations in 44 states has acknowledged that it had a data breach in its credit card processing systems at an undisclosed number of its restaurants potentially affecting what appears to be at least 5 million credit and...
