by admin | Jun 27, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Regular readers of Scamicide are probably familiar with credit freezes, but it is important to remind everyone about the benefits of this tool that is simply the best thing you can do to protect yourself from identity theft. A credit freeze is, as the name implies,...
by admin | Apr 21, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently the Department of Homeland Security joined Interpol and the FBI to issue a serious warning about a botnet called the Simda botnet. A botnet, as readers familiar with Scamicide will know, is a network of infected computers used by cybercriminals to spread...
by admin | Mar 21, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Scammers have no sympathy for anyone as evidenced by the many scams that are based on obituaries. For years, scammers would scan the obituaries and then go to Social Security’s Death Master File where the names of deceased Americans are available along with...
by admin | Feb 27, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
More and more massive data breaches have become a part of everyday life. Breaches such as recently occurred at Anthem and in the past few years affected Target, Home Depot and many other companies affect just about everyone. Sometimes the data breaches, such as...
by admin | Feb 19, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As I reported to you right after it happened earlier this month, Anthem, a major care health care company suffered a data breach that could affect as many as 80 million Americans. The data stolen included birth dates, Social Security numbers and other information...
