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Mar 7, 2024 · Things like a fake website name or strange people emailing you are a dead giveaway, but some scams are harder to recognize than others.
- Shannon Sanford
Feb 20, 2015 · First, it was sent from an @yahoo.com address — and legitimate businesses, especially those big and successful enough to be hiring additional staff, have their own “named” email addresses, not...
Mar 5, 2024 · Companies and anti-fraud professionals are warning consumers to watch for fake listings on search engines that redirect people to fraudulent versions of familiar companies and brands.
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Last week, a woman named Nayana wrote to say she'd encountered a job scammer similar to one we'd warned about last February, although “I believe my guy was a lot more careless and amateur,” as Nayana said. Nayana backed out before hearing his actual pitch, so she doesn't know if he was an advance-fee scammerhoping to cheat her out of money, or a mo...
But Nayana didn't know this at first. What initially raised her eyebrow was the fact that she'd have to sign up for various online video-chat accounts if she wanted a job interview. As the initial email said (all typos lifted from the original, but links deleted or disabled), interviewing for the job meant that: Nayana's friends assured her that in...
More than likely, “Andrew Roberts” intended the video chat to look and sound as much like a “real” job interview as possible. Even if he lives and operates out of a shabby one-room apartment, it's not too hard to dress up one small corner of it to look like a respectable business office – and ensure the lens of his webcam focuses only on that one s...
So one possibility is that Nayana's scammer hoped to pull off some form of advance-fee scam. More insidious is the second likely choice: the money-laundering scam. In January, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued a warning that such scammers were especially targeting college students searching for part-time work – which certainly ...
Feb 19, 2017 · We got a letter in the mail the other day saying my wife inherited $7 million. Here's how I could tell it was a scam in a heartbeat.
Mar 6, 2024 · With a quarter of people receiving suspicious emails every day, it’s becoming more difficult to separate genuine emails from those designed by fraudsters. Below, we detail five email scams to watch out for right now and how you can spot and avoid these emails.
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