by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 28, 2026 | Scam of the day
Phony text messaging, called smishing, which purport to be from your credit card company is a scam about which I have been warning you for years, but is a scam that has dramatically increased recently due to AI. Scammers are harvesting vacation photos from social...
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. | Jul 10, 2026 | Scam of the day
Recently there has been an increase in the number of scams related to Amazon Prime which is not surprising since there are approximately 220 million Amazon Prime members. Scammers attempt to lure people into providing their credit card information or Amazon user name...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 14, 2026 | Scam of the day
Big box wholesaler Costco is extremely popular with more than 63 million members and anything popular with the public is also going to be popular with scammers. Imposter scams where scammers generate massive numbers of emails posing as Costco informing the targeted...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 19, 2026 | Scam of the day
Creative scammers have come up with a new way to scam you when you shop online. For years, I have warned you about phony retail websites that either appear to be that of legitimate retailers such as Wallmart or are just websites that come up high in a search engine...
