by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 14, 2024 | Scam of the day
Scams involving the popular travel website Booking.com have increased dramatically over the last year worldwide with one hundred hotels in Japan among the most recent targets. The scam starts with a phishing email to a hotel that lures the unsuspecting hotel employee...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 14, 2024 | Scam of the day
Scammers around the world are using Facebook to take advantage of real funerals to scam people. In one variation of this scam he scammers set up fake Facebook pages posing as a local funeral director and provide a link to a funeral service for someone who had...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 10, 2023 | Scam of the day
Ordering food online for delivery was somewhat popular prior to the pandemic, but really took off during the pandemic when people wanted restaurant food without having to go to a restaurant. Many restaurants have taken advantage of this interest and set up websites...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 5, 2023 | Scam of the day
Booking a hotel room online for a vacation can be an easy and economical way to find a room. It can also be an easy way to be scammed. According to recent figures from the American Hotel & Lodging Association, consumers were duped into making reservations at...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 3, 2023 | Scam of the day
Regular readers of Scamicide are certainly familiar with skimmers which are devices installed on ATMs and credit and debit card processors that steal information from credit and debit cards thereby enabling criminals to use that information to make charges on those...
