by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 16, 2023 | Scam of the day
Most new scams are merely variations of older scam and today’s Scam of the day is one of those. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning doctors, nurses and other medical personnel of a scam in which the targeted victim receives a phone call from the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 31, 2023 | Scam of the day
Recently a Scamicide reader told me that she had received an email from a friend of hers asking for a favor. Her friend needed the Scamicide reader to send a gift card to someone because her friend was unable to do so and needed to send the gift card right away. The...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 4, 2023 | Scam of the day
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) consumers lost 228 million dollars last year to scams in which gift cards were used as the payment method and this number has increased each year since 2018. Scammers are big fans of gift cards because they are easy...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 20, 2023 | Scam of the day
Recently the Knoxville Tennessee Police Department issued a warning about an increase in phone scams in which the caller poses as a law enforcement officer who tells the targeted victim of the scam that there is a warrant for his arrest, but that if they immediately...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 14, 2022 | Scam of the day
Recently the Topeka, Kansas Police issued a warning about an increase in phone scams in which the caller poses as a law enforcement officer who tells the targeted victim of the scam that the targeted victim of the scams is in contempt of court or has issues with the...
