by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 11, 2022 | Scam of the day
Geek Squad is a subsidiary of big box store chain Best Buy and it offers excellent tech support for electronic devices including televisions and computers. They are a popular company used by many people. Lately, scammers have been sending phishing emails that appear...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 5, 2022 | Scam of the day
For the last month multiple Facebook accounts have posted posts like the one reproduced below with a photo of comedian Ellen De Generes (not Ellen Degeeneress, as the scammers refer to her in the posts) promising to pay $750 to random winners. The scam’s goal...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 3, 2022 | Scam of the day
Shopping on Amazon, has been popular for a long time, but particularly during the continuing pandemic shopping on Amazon has increased dramatically and with so many people shopping on Amazon, scammers are using Amazon as the basis for a variety of scams. According to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 31, 2022 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is one about which I have written in the past, however it continues to pop up frequently as evidenced by a Scamicide reader who recently was targeted by a Facebook cloner. If one of your friends received a Facebook friend request that...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 29, 2022 | Scam of the day
While just about everyone shares content through social media that they find on other sites on the Internet, many of those people do not consider the possibility that their republishing the material could involve a copyright infringement. In some instances, copyright...
