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As you probably know, scammers love to target the customers of popular retail establishments by sending out fake “offers” in those company’s names.
The Lowes and Target scams (and several others) make the rounds at least once a year so most folks nowadays know to simply ignore them, but now another recurring retailer-related scam making the rounds once again.
Well, the scammers are working overtime perpetrating yet another new Facebook scam. This one preys on folks who are looking for a good deal on household items.
Unlike the most of the scams that spread on social media, this one seems to be exactly the same in every instance, making it very easy to recognize and avoid.
In a nutshell, the scammer is hacking into legitimate Facebook accounts and posting the following on the hacked accounts’ Timelines. [Read more…]
A while back I wrote a post warning about fake ads that are being published on Facebook.
Well, there’s a recurring fake ad offering to sell unclaimed Amazon packages at huge discounts making the rounds yet again. And unfortunately, lots of people are falling for it as usual.
Here’s a screenshot that shows what the fake ad looks like: [Read more…]
Email scams have been around almost as long as email itself, and the problem seems to be getting worse instead of better.
Add in all the scams that are constantly making the rounds on social media and it’s easy to see that fraud is a major problem in today’s connected world.
There’s a rather tempting email and social media scam that pops up every now and then, and unfortunately it’s making the rounds again right now. [Read more…]
As you probably know, scammers and hackers have been using fraudulent emails to practice their illicit trade ever since the invention of email itself.
Unfortunately, government regulations and cyber-security measures have done little to prevent malicious emails from making their way into our inboxes.
Even worse, many scammers and hackers are now very good at creating fake emails that are difficult to distinguish from the real emails we receive from banks, PayPal and other online services on a daily basis.