by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 7, 2026 | Scam of the day
Gift card draining scams have become a huge problem with some estimates as to the amount of money lost to this type of scam anywhere from $200 million to a billion dollars in the last two years. Longtime readers of Scamicide may remember that I have been warning you...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 26, 2024 | Scam of the day
This year the Department of Homeland Security launched a task force to combat gift card draining, a scam in which criminals use stolen or altered gift card numbers to drain money from gift cards before the purchaser of the gift card can spend it. The task force named...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 21, 2022 | Scam of the day
As was made abundantly clear by 2017’s massive Equifax data breach which affected 148 million people and was perpetrated by hackers exploiting a vulnerability in Apache software for which Apache had already issued a security update, but Equifax failed to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 18, 2018 | Scam of the day, Uncategorized
Recently the Department of Homeland Security released a list of important updates to popular computer programs. The most critical of these are two Windows 10 updates. The good news is that if you use Windows 10, updates are automatically downloaded and installed on...
by admin | Jun 28, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As shown by the recent massive WannaCry and Petya ransomware attacks that took advantage of computer users that had not patched their Windows operating system with available updates, constant updating of the software we all use with the latest security patches and...
