by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 27, 2025 | Scam of the day
The Wall Street Journal recently did a scathing story that said that Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram is becoming the “cornerstone of the internet fraud economy.” According to the story Meta accounted for nearly half of all reported...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 30, 2024 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about romance scams for many years. More recently I have been warning you for the last few years about the myriad of scams involving cryptocurrencies. In the last few years a new scam combining the romance scam and cryptocurrency scams...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 11, 2024 | Scam of the day
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) more scams in the United States are started on social media than on any other platform at a cost for the last two years of 2.7 billion dollars and that figure is probably low because many victims, often out of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 29, 2024 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about sextortion scams for eight years. Some sextortion scams begin with an email in which you are told that your computer and web cam have been hacked and that the scammers have video of you watching porn online. In the email, the scammer...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 29, 2024 | Scam of the day
Recently a number of major cryptocurrency firms, tech companies and advocacy groups announced that they have joined together to help educate the public about scams, something we have been doing here at Scamicide for more than twelve years. Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini,...
