by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 18, 2025 | Scam of the day
Recently a Scamicide reader told me that she had received an email from a friend of hers asking for a favor. Her friend needed the Scamicide reader to send a gift card to someone because her friend was unable to do so and needed to send the gift card right away. The...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 11, 2023 | Scam of the day
Recently a Scamicide reader told me that she had received an email from a friend of hers asking for a favor. Her friend needed the Scamicide reader to send a gift card to someone because her friend was unable to do so and needed to send the gift card right away. The...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 17, 2022 | Scam of the day
Recently a Scamicide reader told me that she had received an email from a friend of hers asking for a favor. Her friend needed the Scamicide reader to send a gift card to someone because her friend was unable to do so and needed to send the gift card right away. The...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 6, 2021 | Scam of the day
A number of Scamicide readers have contacted me because they were concerned when they received a mailer-daemon notification in their email that would seem to indicate that their email had been used to send out spam emails. These Scamicide readers were worried that...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 16, 2021 | Scam of the day
Recently I received an email from my most trusted friend (my wife). The email merely said that she found an article in which I would be interested and included a link for me to click on to the article. Similarly, last year I got an email that read: “Hi Steve...
