by admin | Jul 19, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Today’s Scam of the day comes from the email of a Scamicide reader. I am sure that the same email has been sent to many of you, as well. This is just another version of the Nigerian email scam. Although it may seem that the Nigerian email scam began in the...
by admin | Jul 16, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Today’s Scam of the day comes right from my email and I am sure that it has appeared in the email boxes of many of you. Although it may appear that the Nigerian email scam began in the era of the Internet, the basis of the scam actually goes back to 1588 when...
by admin | Feb 4, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Today’s Scam of the day comes right from my email and I am sure that it has appeared in the email boxes of many of you. Although it may appear that the Nigerian email scam began in the era of the Internet, the basis of the scam actually goes back to 1588 when...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 20, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Although it may seem as if this scam only began in earnest with the invention of email, in fact, the scam itself is just a variation of a scam that is more than four hundred years old when it was called the Spanish Prisoner Con. At that time a letter was sent to the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 8, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The Nigerian email scam has been with us as long as there has been email. In fact, the scam is just the latest incarnation of a scam that was used as long ago as the 1500s when it was called the Spanish Prisoner Scam. By now, hopefully, everyone is familiar with how...
