by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 24, 2025 | Scam of the day
Regular readers of Scamicide are familiar with Scattered Spider which is the name of a hacking group largely made up of teens and young men in their twentys in the United States and the UK who have managed, primarily through social engineering rather than...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 16, 2025 | Scam of the day
A new scam that takes advantage of old technology is landline identity theft which has rececently been used by scammers to hack into someone’s bank account without knowing the password for the account. Many people no longer use landlines, but may not have...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 24, 2024 | Scam of the day
A Subscriber Identity Module, more commonly known as a SIM card, is an integrated circuit that stores information used to authenticate subscribers on mobile devices, such as a cell phone. The SIM card is able to be transferred between different devices, and often is,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 11, 2024 | Scam of the day
Weight loss scams are among the most common scams and with good reason. Many people want to lose weight and most of the scam products promise to do that for you easily without diet or exercise. Year after year, they are among the most common of scams, particularly at...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 26, 2023 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is yet another warning about the latest major data breach. This probably should not be surprising at this point because last year, there were more than 1,800 reported data breaches and probably many more that were not reported affecting...
