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Internet Scam You Should Know About




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On the internet, one can fall into the scam many times if not aware of such things, plus there have been many scams on the internet that many people fall for. People may get affected by this in a long-term, as almost every scam on the internet is related to money. So we have made a list of the scam that one should look for.

Phishing Emails and Phony Web Pages

Nowadays, it’s the widest spread scam on the internet, in this scam digital thieves convenes you to enter account and password on a fake website. They give the links of their website on different areas on the different website, and when a person clicks on the website a new homepage will open but the page will be fake. If the person will enter the information on the website related to the social media or account number all the things will be hacked.

Lottery Scam

In this scam one will receive information through an email, text, calling, etc saying that you have won! a huge amount of money just follow this steps, the steps can be different but they’ll have one thing in common and that is Lottery. When the person will open it, it will ask for the bank account number or any other personal information, then they will ask for money related to transfer charges or processing fee. Most of the lottery scam use the names like legitimate lottery organization or corporation/companies.

The Nigerian Scam (419)

This scam is little different from the other as it will not ask for the card number or other social media stuff directly, instead it will use your emotions and willingness to help people. The most common way for this scams is “It is a desperate cry for help my husband has died and I wanted to leave millions of dollars of his estate to a good church”. In many variations, they will promise you to pay a very large amount of money for very unskilled work, and for all this, they will ask for “legal or other fees”.

Sick Baby Scam

Mostly everyone came across the scam where the user can see a photo of a baby in the hospital, on the photo or on the post there will be written: “this baby needs help and the parents can’t afford it, click this link to donate 1$ to help ”. If the person will click to donate and enters the account information the whole account will be empty.

 

Disaster Relief Scams

Every year many disasters hit the world, and many people lost their everything in those disasters, at that point of time many good people want to help the victims by donating the money or things. But that opens the gate for the scammers to set up a fake charity website, then they will send the emails and messages to the people regarding help when the person clicks on the website and volunteers the bank account number or credit card number, the scammers will leave the account blank.

Content By: Tohid Sheikh.

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