by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 25, 2019 | 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 trick you into providing personal information that will be used to make you a victim of identity theft, are...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 21, 2019 | Scam of the day
Record numbers of people took advantage of the Amazon Prime Days shopping sales earlier this week with estimates of sales in excess of the traditional sales figures for Black Friday and Cyber Monday at the start of the holiday shopping season. Deliveries of the...
by admin | Jul 22, 2018 | Scam of the day
It must be phishing season. It was just a few days ago that I described a Chase phishing email and today’s Scam of the day is about a phishing email that purports to be from American Express. It was brought to my attention by a Scamicide reader who received it...
by admin | Jul 15, 2018 | Scam of the day
Just about everyone is familiar with the popular online shopping site eBay which is why it is also so popular with scammers who use phony phishing emails that appear to come from eBay which attempt to either lure you into clicking on malware infected links or...
by admin | Feb 16, 2018 | Scam of the day
Income tax identity theft continues to be a major problem costing taxpayers in general billions of dollars each year and delaying refunds of victims of income tax identity theft by many months. However, due to the joint efforts of private sector tax preparers along...
