by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 10, 2024 | Scam of the day
Recently I received an email informing me that that Amazon Prime Membership was going to be suspended or even cancelled because the credit card tied to the account was no longer able to be used. The email contained a link for me to click on to provide a new credit...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 10, 2024 | Scam of the day
Peer to Peer Payment Payment Service (P2P) Zelle is used by many people to quickly and conveniently send money electronically from your credit card or bank account. Sending money through Zelle only requires you to enter the recipient’s phone number or email...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 1, 2024 | Scam of the day
Sometimes we are our own worst enemy when it comes to posting too much personal information on social media that can be leveraged by a criminal for purposes of identity theft. During the earlier days of the pandemic many people posted photos of their vaccination...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 21, 2024 | Scam of the day
Hong Kong police in conjunction with Malaysian police recently made arrests related to a bank hacking scam that had been used to steal money from thousands of scam victims in Hong Kong. While Scamicide is based in the United States, scams have no borders and we...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 14, 2024 | Scam of the day
In a required regulatory filing AT&T recently disclosed that it had suffered a significant data breach affecting pretty much all of its 109 million customers. The data breach was not of AT&T’s computers, but rather of the cloud data provider Snowflake...
