by admin | Dec 12, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
It seems harmless enough when you see it come up on your Facebook page. It is often titled the “Secret Sister Gift Exchange” and it provides you with a list of six people. You are told to send a gift worth at least ten dollars to the first person on the...
by admin | Aug 8, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
During the years that I have been writing Scamicide I have written many times about various Facebook scams. The reason for this is that with more than a billion users, Facebook is obviously popular and anything popular with that many people will be sought after as a...
by admin | Feb 8, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
We have all seen Facebook postings urging us to click that we “like”them. Sometimes it is an emotional appeal to show support for a sick child. Sometimes it is to show support for a political message. Sometimes these appeals are legitimate, but...
by admin | Sep 26, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Searching for a job is much easier today with all of the resources of the Internet, however, unfortunately, it is also easier for scammers to search for victims posing as employment recruiters using the resources of the Internet. The phony recruiters often reach out...
by admin | Sep 11, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Back in the March 31st Scam of the day I warned you about the dangers of sextortion. Sex extortion or sextortion has been around for years on the Internet with criminals tricking people into performing sexual acts online that are recorded and then used to blackmail...