by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 11, 2025 | Scam of the day
Recently the FBI issued a warning about scammers posing as health insurance companies offering phony discounted medical insurance. They contact their targeted victims by phone, text messages and emails. Many of these scams target older Americans. It is easy to get...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 11, 2025 | Scam of the day
I have often written about imporster scams where scammers pose as legitimate companies or government agencies that you know and trust in an effort to lure you into providing personal information or making a payment under some pretext. Now, in an unusual twist on the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 10, 2024 | Scam of the day
Regular readers of Scamicide are certainly familiar with skimmers which are devices installed on ATMs as well as credit and debit card processors that steal information from credit and debit cards thereby enabling criminals to use that information to make charges on...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 5, 2024 | Scam of the day
The FBI recently issued a warning about a new variation of the work at home scam. Scammers posing as staffing or recruiting agencies contact their targeted victims by phone calls or text messaging offering simple to perform jobs such as rating restaurants. The pay...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 17, 2023 | Scam of the day
The FBI recently issued a warning about a scam they call “The Phantom Hacker.” The scam starts with a pop-up on your computer, a text message, email or phone call from the scammer posing as a legitimate tech company informing the victim that here appears...
