by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 28, 2024 | Scam of the day
Whatever is popular with many people is going to be popular with scammers and so it should come as no surprise that scammers are using YouTube as a platform for perpetrating a wide variety of scams. More than 2.7 billion people use YouTube making it the third most...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 30, 2024 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about romance scams for many years. Romance scams generally follow a familiar pattern with the scammers establishing relationships with people, generally women, online through various legitimate dating websites and social media using fake...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 20, 2024 | Scam of the day
In my Scam of the day for September 7, 2023 https://scamicide.com/2023/09/06/scam-of-the-day-september-7-2023-gordon-ramsay-hexclad-cookware-scam/ I told you about a scam here a deepfake image of Chef Gordon Ramsey was used to trick people into a scam involving...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 3, 2023 | Scam of the day
I have been writing about various cryptocurrency scams since 2014 and they only appear to be getting worse. The most recent cryptocurrency scam involves an AI created deepfake video that is turning up on TikTok that appears to show Elon Musk being interviewed on Fox...
