by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 8, 2020 | Scam of the day
Not surprisingly Zoom was the most downloaded app of 2020. Zoom’s ability to enable people to virtually communicate, both for business and personal purposes, has been of tremendous value during the Coronoavirus pandemic. However, as always, anything popular...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 27, 2020 | Scam of the day
As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage much of the world, recently there has been cause for some hope due to reports that companies such as Moderna and others working on vaccines to fight the Coronavirus are making significant progress toward having such a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 22, 2020 | Scam of the day
As I have written many times since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic, scammers are quite adept at exploiting the pandemic to operate a wide variety of scams. With many people working remotely and many others being furloughed or losing their jobs, scammers have...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 27, 2020 | Scam of the day
Phishing emails, by which scammers and identity thieves attempt to lure you into either clicking on links contained within the email which download malware or providing personal information that will be used to make you a victim of identity theft, are nothing new. ...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 25, 2020 | Scam of the day
Here is another good example of a phishing email that is presently being circulated. It was sent to me by a Scamicide reader who received it. It makes for compelling reading, but it is a scam. Phishing emails, by which scammers and identity thieves attempt to lure...
