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...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 5, 2023 | Scam of the day
Tech support scams in which consumers are tricked by scammers into believing there is a problem with their computers that require the expensive services of scammers constitute a major problem. Tech support scams are increasingly common and victimize consumers 60...
