by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 15, 2024 | Scam of the day
She’s back! Actually, she has never left. I have been writing about scams related to Mavis Wanczyk for seven years but recently I have received many emails from Scamicide readers telling me about various new incarnations of a variety of scams that share the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 19, 2023 | Scam of the day
I have been writing about scams related to Mavis Wanczyk for six years. Many of you may not remember the name of Mavis 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...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 7, 2023 | Scam of the day
She’s back! I have been writing about scams related to Mavis Wanczyk for six years but recently I have received many emails from Scamicide readers telling me about various new incarnations of a variety of scams that share the same hook which is that Mavis...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 16, 2023 | Scam of the day
With both the Megabucks and Powerball lotteries recently at tremendous payout amounts it is not surprising that scams using the name of lottery winner Mavis Wanczyk are back although the truth is scams using her name have never gone away in the six years since she won...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 15, 2023 | Scam of the day
She’s back! I have been writing about scams related to Mavis Wanczyk for six years but recently I have received many emails from Scamicide readers telling me about various new incarnations of a variety of scams that share the same hook which is that Mavis...