by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 23, 2020 | Scam of the day
Lottery scams are among the most common scams and although these scams take many different forms, they all have in common that you have won a lottery you never even entered (quite a feat) and that you must now pay money for either taxes or administrative fees in order...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 4, 2020 | Scam of the day
Many people may not remember the name of Mavis L. Wanczyk, but she was the lucky winner of a 758 million dollar Powerball drawing in 2017. Not long after she claimed her prize, a scam started appearing in which many people received an email with the message line...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 7, 2020 | Scam of the day
Publishers Clearing House, the sponsor of some of the most popular legitimate lotteries in the country no longer limits its contests to one or two a year, but has numerous lotteries each month. Recently there has been an increase in reports of scammers calling people...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 29, 2019 | Scam of the day
During the years that I have been writing Scamicide I have written many times about various Facebook scams. The reason for this is that with 2.8 billion users, Facebook is obviously popular and anything popular with that many people will be sought after as a vehicle...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 4, 2019 | Scam of the day
Many people may not remember the name of Mavis L. Wanczyk, but she was the lucky winner of a 758 million dollar Powerball drawing in 2017. Not long after she claimed her prize, a scam started appearing in which many people received an email with the message line...
