How to Avoid 10 common email and Internet scams

How to Avoid 10 common email and Internet scams

1. Paypal or Online credit card/ Banking Scams

   • You might actually be giving a cybercriminal you account info.
   • You may get an email that says your account will be deactivated
   • Check if sender's email is suspicious or the email includes a threat

2. Survey Scams

   • do not let cybercriminals to accsess your accounts
   • If you do you will find purchases you have not made
   • Do not participate in spams

3. Hidden URL scam

   • people may get around the twitter character limit
   • If people ask to be friends with you, check teir previous status
   • Check if their post look like spam, following many people, and pic. looks worthy of someone famous

4. Sick Baby Cam

   • People might post pics. about donating money to a baby with diseases
   • You could send the money to some con artist instead a baby
   • Don't share to get money!!

5. Suspicious Photo Scam

   • If you see one simply delete the link
   • If this happens inform your friend that their account has been hacked
   • people might tell you about an awful pic. of you and get your account info.

6. Quiz Scam

   • Be careful with social network quizzes
   • Don't enter your cell phone number for quizzes without knowing why
   • You will have to pay a large amount for it

7. Hijacked Profile Scam

   • People might hack into a friends account and try to contact you.
   • Don't accept money given by your friends without making sure
   • If they seem suspicius try contacting your friend by other means to find if it is true

8. Nigerian Check Scam

   • You might be asked by some royal-sounding person to recover a large amount of money
   • They will say that you have to pay the transfer fees, but slowly take all your money away.
   • Don't agree to help anyone for money

9. Mystery Shopper Scam

   • you might recive an email and then give money for a package you will never recive
   • There are many of them. All are designed to steal your money and find where you live
   • Even if you are asked don't send money for meaterials you will be scamed

10. Foreign Lottery Scams

    • some may say that you haves won a certain amount
    • to avoid it enter the name of the lottery into google ans see if it is real
    • is when you recive an email about some kind of lottery