by admin | May 13, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Yesterday I told you about a scam which starts when you receive an email that appears to come from one of your friends, but in actuality is coming from a scammer who has hacked into your friend’s email account is sending out messages that appear to come from...
by admin | Nov 11, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Phishing, as you probably know, is the term for the tactic used by scammers and identity thieves who pose as a legitimate company, government agency or some other person or entity you trust and lure you into providing personal information that can either be used to...
by admin | Oct 4, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
With news of the massive data breach at J.P. Morgan Chase in which names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of 76 million households and 7 million small businesses were stolen by what appears to be Russian hackers who may or may not be affiliated with the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 23, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
More than 2.5 million people use America Online (AOL) for email. Yesterday, AOL issued a statement confirming what many of us had already known, which is that AOL had been hacked and many AOL email account users had their email accounts taken over in a Botnet of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 21, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
With 40 million credit and debit cards affected by the recent hacking of Target, there is a good chance that many Scamicide readers are a part of that group that includes my own wife. The hacking of Target once again shows that regardless of how careful you are, you...
