by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 27, 2024 | Scam of the day
Scammers love to take over Facebook accounts because people generally trust the posts put up by their friends that appear on their Facebook page. These people forget my motto of “trust me, you can’t trust anyone” and often click on links in these...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 27, 2023 | Scam of the day
A Scamicide reader recently received the phishing email reproduced below which had as the message line “Your F acebook Account is Temporary Blocked (Critical Login Attemp) Please Verification is NEEDED.” This is typical of phishing emails that they...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 6, 2022 | Scam of the day
With 2.85 billion users of Facebook, it is no surprise that scammers and identity thieves often use Facebook as the hook for scams and phishing emails which purport to be from Facebook that attempt to lure you into either clicking on links which can download malware,...