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10 Tips for Avoiding Common Scams

This is how jobs work: the employer pays the employee, not the other way around. As soon as a job offer involves you paying for “materials,” or even being sent a check to cover said materials, making a...

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The Riskiest Online Purchase You Can Make

The Better Business Bureau has released its Scam Tracker Risk Report for 2021. Once again, the type of scam that topped the list was Online Purchases. But under the category of Online Purchases, one...

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Invoice Fraud Targets Businesses

Are you a business owner? Do you handle the bills and invoices for a business? Be on the lookout for Invoice Fraud. Invoice Fraud is when a business receives a bill for a service or supplies that it...

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Fake Payment Scams

If you’re selling something online beware of fake payment scams. When you use an online platform to accept payments (PayPal is the most common), you generally will get some kind of notification when...

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Don’t Unsubscribe from Spam Emails

You probably get a lot of email, and a large portion of it is probably spam. “Spam” is a term for any unsolicited, unwanted electronic communication. It can happen over email, text message, website,...

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5 Things Only Scammers Do

It is rare that a completely new type of scam or fraud emerges. Almost every fraud warning you encounter involves a slightly modified take on something that’s been around for years, decades, even...

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Instagram Artist Scams

Con artists have a long history of appealing to two very basic human emotions: fear and greed. Just about any scam you can think of plays on one or the other. But a third human trait can also be...

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Pig Butchering: Ugly Scam, Ugly Name

“Pig Butchering” is an updated take on Investment Scams, in which victims are lured into phony cryptocurrency schemes. The name comes from the practice of “fattening up” victims for financial...

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Hitman Scams Scare Victims into Paying

Many scams take advantage of greed, and some work on vanity. But most use fear as their primary emotion to trick victims into reacting. One of the most visceral forms is the Hitman Scam. The Threat...

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One Simple Test to Detect a Scam

Online Fraud Prevention Techniques There are a lot of ways to detect online scams. You can try to learn about lots of different schemes and memorize the details of each one, sort of a mental “if...

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