by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 6, 2025 | Scam of the day
Prudential Financial which is a major financial services company has settled a class action brought against it by its customers whose personal information was compromised in a data breach that occurred on February 4, 2024. The data breach affected 2.5 million of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 5, 2025 | Scam of the day
This upcoming Sunday is Mother’s Day and once again we must be vigilant about not falling prey to scams related to this holiday. Anything popular with the public will always be popular with scammers. Although for many of us Mother’s Day is an...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 19, 2025 | Scam of the day
Imposter scams have long been among the most lucrative for scammers. While there are many variations of this scam, the most common variations have involved scammers emailing their victims posing as a popular company with which we all do business or calling their...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 12, 2021 | Scam of the day
A number of Scamicide readers have sent me copies of phishing emails that appear to come from Wells Fargo. One of them is reproduced below. It makes for compelling reading, but it is a scam. Phishing emails, by which scammers and identity thieves attempt to lure...
by admin | Jul 8, 2018 | Scam of the day
Medicare has used a person’s Social Security number as his or her Medicare number since the inception of Medicare in 1965 and despite the rest of the country recognizing that this puts Medicare recipients in serious danger of identity theft, Medicare resisted...
