Scams that target seniors get a lot of press, but no age group is safe. Young people in middle school, high school and college are also prime targets for a wide variety of fraud. If you know someone in this age group, attend this free seminar and be...
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Did you get a text message like this recently? "ACTION REQUIRED FROM INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF WORKFORCE: Your Back2Work money of $9,880.00 could not be processed by your financial institution Kindly Click [website redacted] to confirm your bank account...
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Scams that target seniors get a lot of press, but no age group is safe. Young people in middle school, high school and college are also prime targets for a wide variety of fraud. If you know someone in this age group, attend this free seminar and be...
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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. Imagine this shows up in your email inbox: I want you to read...
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“Pig Butchering” refers to an updated take on Investment Scams, in which victims are lured into phony cryptocurrency schemes. The perpetrators of this scam convince their victims to buy cryptocurrency and “invest” it through a website. The...
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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 there is a third human trait that can also be exploited: vanity. And nowhere is vanity...
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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 centuries (the Nigerian Prince scam has roots dates...
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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, social media post, comment section and more. We...
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