Easy Steps To Detect And Stay Safe From Scams

We can all have scams. Scams work because scammers create trustworthy stories to steal your money and obtain your personal information. Scammers are now becoming even smarter and taking advantage of new technology, products, services and key events to assure you that their scams are real.

Scams can be very difficult to detect. Here are some circumstances that should be kept in mind. Sometimes scammers use many of these tricks simultaneously.

1. Opportunities to earn or save money:

Scammers will cheat to give you confidence that you are getting a great deal or offer. They will put pressure on you to step quickly so that you do not miss the opportunity. Remember that deals that seem good enough to be hard to believe are usually not true.

2. Sad stories and crying for support:

Scammers try to use your decency against you. They will share with you stories of heartbreak and tragedy and explain why they need your help and your money. Their aim is to generate sympathy in your mind and get financial benefits from you.

3. Links and Attachments:

Scammers use links to send you to fake (scam) websites to steal your information and money. They may also ask you to open the attachment. These attachments can install viruses that steal your personal information.

4. Pressure to take quick steps:

Scammers don’t want you to consider the situation or take time to think. So they pressure you to take quick decisions. They may also threaten that something bad will happen if you don’t act immediately. This is a common psychological trick by which people take steps without thinking.

5. Requests to pay in unusual or specific ways:

Scammers often ask to pay with a virtual currency such as a preloaded debit card, iTunes card, or Bitcoin. These methods are unusual and unsafe because once money is sent it is almost impossible to get it back.

6. Request to setup new accounts or PayID:

Scammers may ask you to setup a new bank account or PayID on the pretext of receiving or making payments. They may pretend to be bank officials and ask you to transfer your money to a new account to keep it safe. This is a completely false and fraudulent method.

If scammers succeed in taking your money, they will often try to grab more money from you. Unfortunately, out of every three scam victims, one person becomes a scam victim more than once.

If you lost money in a scam, beware of people who promise to get you your money back. This is also another type of “follow-up scam”, in which an attempt is made to deceive an already victim again.

Summary:

The most effective way to avoid scams is to be alert, check every offer, not open any links or attachments without thinking, and not respond immediately to any suspicious calls or emails. Always believe only after checking the facts — because in today’s digital age, fraudsters under the guise of trust have become very clever.

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