If you’re on Instagram, you’ve probably received DMs inviting you to become a “brand ambassador.” You’ll get free swag in return for posting a few photos of said swag. Sounds great, right? Not so fast… You should be wary of any such offers in your DMs because they may well be a deceptive marketing tactic, […]
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There were multiple reports on r/scams yesterday of fraudulent Facebook messages being sent to users with Facebook Business accounts. The messages claim the recipients have violated Facebook’s intellectual property policies and that their pages will be deleted unless they click a link to a non-official site. Users should not click the links, however, as they
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Ever seen a post from a social media influencer selling signed MacBook Pros? Priced at $600 each, you might be tempted to buy one. If you do, however, you’ll soon be disappointed because it’s a scam! How the scam works Here’s how the scam works. Fraudsters first hijack the X (formerly Twitter) account belonging to
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If you have a Hulu account and receive a message from [email protected], you might wonder if it’s a scam. After all, Hulu’s domain is hulu.com, so you’d expect emails from the company to be sent from a hulu.com address, not a hulumail.com one. Plus, if you Google “Hulumail, scam” you’ll see multiple sites claiming emails
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Scammers are impersonating social media giant Meta and sending malicious DMs to Instagram users. The bogus DMs accuse their recipients of violating copyright rules and urge them to file an appeal to avoid their accounts being closed. But completing the fake appeal form gives scammers access to the victim’s Instagram account, allowing them to use
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Scammers are impersonating buy now, pay later provider Afterpay in smishing attacks, a form of phishing sent via text messages. The scam texts try to lure victims with claims they have thousands of dollars’ worth of store credit, but victims risk losing everything in their bank accounts. In this post, I’ll examine one such fraudulent
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If you think you’ve been scammed, it’s natural to want to ask for help or just vent on social media. Unfortunately, doing so will probably attract dozens of recovery scammers. In this post, I’ll explain how their scam works and how to avoid falling for it. How recovery scams work Recovery scammers target people who
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Scammers have been busy impersonating the United States Postal Service in fake text messages this week. The texts are designed to trick recipients into revealing their personal and financial information, putting their identity and hard earned cash at risk. The scam The text messages, many examples of which have been posted on the subreddit r/scams,
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Despite Musk’s claims to the contrary, Twitter is still full of scams. Crypto scams, in particular, are rampant on the platform. In this post, I’ll explain one I came across recently so you’ll be able to avoid it. You can also watch this one-minute video I made for a quick overview: The scam Tweets promoting
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You receive an email supposedly from Ace Hardware, saying you’ve won a prize, like a fancy drill or a space heater. All you have to do to receive it is take part in a short survey. Should you do it? Nope! It’s a common scam! In this post, I’ll break down one such scam email
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A few months ago, I tried to log in to one of my online accounts and was stopped by a weird test to prove I was human. Instead of the usual tasks of checking a box or picking out all traffic lights in a photo, this test, or CAPTCHA as they’re called, told me to
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