by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 11, 2023 | Scam of the day
Recently a Scamicide reader told me that she had received an email from a friend of hers asking for a favor. Her friend needed the Scamicide reader to send a gift card to someone because her friend was unable to do so and needed to send the gift card right away. The...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 2, 2022 | Scam of the day
I have been reporting to you about this particular scam preying upon home buyers for six years, however since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic this scam has gotten worse. Scammers have been quick to take advantage of so much of home buying and selling being...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 21, 2021 | Scam of the day
I am sure most people are familiar with Gieco from its clever commercials which often feature a talking Gecko. Geico is the second largest auto insurer in the country and recently it suffered a data breach in which the driver’s license numbers of an, at this...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 20, 2021 | Scam of the day
Two graduates of the State University of New York (SUNY) Plattsburgh, Nicholas Faber and Michael Patrick Fish have pleaded guilty to computer fraud and aggravated identity theft charges related to their their hacking into online accounts of 79 students at SUNY...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 18, 2019 | Scam of the day
Sex workers in the Netherlands and their customers use the website Hooker.nl as an online forum. It was recently disclosed that the site had been hacked and personal information of 250,000 sex workers and their customers was stolen. While prostitution is legal in...
