by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 23, 2026 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about romance scams for many years. More recently I have been warning you about cryptocurrency scams since 2017. In the last few years a new scam combining the romance scam and cryptocurrency scams has surfaced. Romance scams generally follow...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 14, 2019 | Scam of the day, Uncategorized
Romance scams are one of the most common of scams and I have written about them here at Scamicide.com for seven years. Romance scams prey upon vulnerable people looking for some love and companionship in their lives. Recently Australian law enforcement officials...
by admin | Dec 27, 2017 | Scam of the day
According to a civil forfeiture filing in the Federal District Court for Minnesota, a Minnesota woman had been scammed into sending $60,770 in a little over a year to a scammer who she had met on Match.com who had convinced her that he loved her. I have written many...
by admin | Nov 21, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently, Nigerian Kazeem Owonla was arrested and extradited to Indiana where he is facing charges for scamming an Indiana woman out of more than $100,000 in a romance scam. The victim first met Owonla online in January of this year. Owonla used the name John Tony...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 17, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
A study presented recently at the annual meeting of the British Psychological Society concluded that people with strong romantic beliefs who form idealistic images of their romantic partners are most likely to become a victim of an online dating scam. This is no...
