by admin | Jul 16, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Today’s Scam of the day comes right from my email and I am sure that it has appeared in the email boxes of many of you. Although it may appear that the Nigerian email scam began in the era of the Internet, the basis of the scam actually goes back to 1588 when...
by admin | Apr 21, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently the Department of Homeland Security joined Interpol and the FBI to issue a serious warning about a botnet called the Simda botnet. A botnet, as readers familiar with Scamicide will know, is a network of infected computers used by cybercriminals to spread...
by admin | Mar 30, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Sex extortion or sextortion has been around for years on the Internet with criminals tricking people into performing sexual acts online that are recorded and then used to blackmail the victims. In other cases, hackers have gained access to the webcams of women and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 30, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
It should come as no surprise to regular readers of Scamicide because I have been warning you about this for many months, that the American banking system is under intense cyberattack from cybercriminals intent upon disrupting our financial system. These attacks...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 27, 2012 | Site Related
Our extensive use of electronic communications has become a boom for scammers and cybercriminals whose latest target are financial advisers and brokers. Financial advisers are receiving phony emails purporting to be from their customers asking them to wire money into...
