Scams, identity theft and cybercrimes threaten everyone.🔒 SSL Verified

Table of Contents

• ↓ Search Scams
• ↓ Scam of the day – October 18, 2026 – New Wave of Mavis Wanczyk Scams: How Fake Cash Grants and Social Media Impersonators Target Victims
• ↓ RECENT BOOKS BY STEVE
• ↓ Top Alternatives to scamicide.com

6-Month Traffic Trend Estimate

Official Contact & Profiles

Visual representation extracted from scamicide.com

Content Snippets from scamicide.com

"Every year people lose billions of dollars to scams, identity theft and cybercrime. No one is immune to these dangers. Young and old alike are victims and if you think you are too smart to become a victim, you are wrong. According to the National Association of Securities Dealers wealthy, financially literate and astute people are actually more likely to become victims of financial scams."

"The key to protecting yourself from scams cybercrime and identity theft is education and that is where Scamicide.com comes in. Here at Scamicide.com you will learn how to recognize scams, cyber security threats and  risks of identity theft as well as how to avoid them. Here at Scamicide.com we also alert you each and every day to the latest developments in scams, cyber security and identity theft and tell you what you need to do to protect yourself. It is a dangerous world out there, but Scamicide.com can help you make it safer."

"She’s back!  Actually, she has never left.   I have been writing about scams related to Mavis Wanczyk for nine years but recently I have received emails from Scamicide readers telling me about various new incarnations of a variety of scams that share the same hook which is that Mavis Wanczyk is giving money away to lucky people.  Many of you may not remember the name of Mavis Wanczyk, but she was the lucky winner of a 758 million dollar Powerball drawing in 2017. Not long after she claimed her prize, a scam started appearing in which many people received emails with the message line referring to the Mavis  Wanczyk Cash Grant. The email indicated that you were chosen to receive a large cash grant from Mavis  Wanczyk. All the lucky strangers receiving the emails had to do was provide personal information in order to qualify for the grant. In addition, phony social media accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram were also set up in Ms. Wanczyk’s name through which people were contacted with the same phony offer of free money informing them that in order to qualify for the grant they merely needed to provide personal information."

"But not all Mavis Wanczyk scams involve Mavis Wanczyk.  Recently a Scamicide reader told me about receiving a message purportedly from someone who identified himself as George Linda Dokken who said he was a philanthropist who would send a “grant” of $50,000 to the lucky Scamicide reader, but required a payment of a few hundred dollars in gift cards before sending the grant money.  After paying the requested amount demands for additional payments kept coming, but no grant money was ever paid."

Key Topics & Focus Areas for scamicide.com:

Search Scams

Scam of the day – October 18, 2026 – New Wave of Mavis Wanczyk Scams: How Fake Cash Grants and Social Media Impersonators Target Victims

RECENT BOOKS BY STEVE