by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 22, 2020 | Scam of the day
As I have written many times since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic, scammers are quite adept at exploiting the pandemic to operate a wide variety of scams. With many people working remotely and many others being furloughed or losing their jobs, scammers have...
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 Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 22, 2019 | Scam of the day
Anything popular with the public will always become a popular target for scammers and this is certainly true about Instagram. I have written many times in the last few years about various scams associated with Instagram. Today’s Scam of the day involves a way...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 21, 2019 | Scam of the day
Here is another good example of a phishing email that is presently being circulated. This particular phishing email was sent to us by a Scamicide subscriber. It makes for compelling reading, but it is a scam. Phishing emails, by which scammers and identity thieves...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 10, 2019 | Scam of the day
Here is another good example of a phishing email that is presently being circulated. It makes for compelling reading, but it is a scam. Phishing emails, by which scammers and identity thieves attempt to lure you into either clicking on links contained within the...