by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 19, 2020 | Scam of the day
The holiday shopping season doesn’t begin in earnest in the United States and many other places around the world until later this month. In the United States, the day after Thanksgiving, often referred to as Black Friday is the unofficial start to the holiday...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 17, 2020 | 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...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 10, 2020 | Scam of the day
Weight loss scams are among the most common scams and with good reason. Many people want to lose weight and most of the scam products promise to do that for you easily without diet or exercise. The unfortunate truth is that there is no magic formula for quick and easy...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 15, 2020 | Scam of the day
Here at Scamicide.com we have been concerned about Coronavirus related scams since the earliest days of the pandemic with the first Scam of the day dealing with these scams published on February 7th. Scammers are always exploiting whatever has captured the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 29, 2020 | Scam of the day
The Tupperware company was hacked on March 25th by unknown hackers using a technique called formjacking. Formjacking may be one of the most effective cybercriminal tactics that you have, most likely, never heard of. According to the security company Symantec,...
