by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 23, 2021 | Scam of the day
Impostor scams have long been among the most lucrative for scammers. While there are many variations of this scam, the most common variations have involved scammers calling their intended victims on the telephone posing as some governmental agency such as the, FBI,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 29, 2021 | Scam of the day
A recent survey done by Harris Poll on behalf of Truecaller, a company that provides phone security services concludes that during the last twelve months approximately 56 million Americans were victims of various phone scams at a cost of almost 20 billion dollars. ...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 29, 2020 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day was prompted by an email from a Scamicide reader whose wife was contacted by an acquaintance asking for her cell phone number and to participate in a transaction where she would receive code numbers by text mesage that she was asked to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 19, 2020 | Scam of the day
A month ago in the Scam of the day for August 31st I told you about presidential campaign scams involving solicitations by telephone for campaign contributions by scammers posing as campaign workers for the major candidates. However, scammers taking advantage of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 20, 2019 | Scam of the day
Let’s start with the good news. Although many security experts still warn people to avoid public USB ports for charging your phone, such as commonly found at airports, the threat to the security of your phone by charging at one of these public charging stations...
