by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 11, 2025 | Scam of the day
The Social Security Administration (SSA) announces cost of living adjustments for Social Security payments in October of each year which become effective the following January. Last October a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security recipients was...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 9, 2025 | 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. | Jan 8, 2025 | Scam of the day
In the summer of 2021 I reported to you about a data breach at T-Mobile in which personal information of 54.6 million customers, former customers and prospective customers was stolen. The compromised information included names, phone numbers, Social Security numbers...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 7, 2025 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is one that I wrote about last April, but judging by an email I recently received from a Scamicide reader the problem does not appear to be resolved. Scams involving the popular travel website Booking.com have increased dramatically over...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 6, 2025 | Scam of the day
Social Media such as Facebook is filled with surveys, quizzes and games and while they are very popular and often entertaining, they often are exploited by identity thieves. A good example of this is the “10 Concerts, but there is one act that I haven’t...
