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On Dec. 5, Saoud Khalifah, the founder and CEO of FakeSpot, posted a tweet targeting the five most fake reviewed categories on Amazon. The tweet comes "after the record breaking Black Friday/Cyber...
The scam could also be hoping to gain access to your Amazon account or financial information by tricking you into entering your log-in credentials, credit card number, or other personal data like ...
Not too long ago, you used to have to buy concert and event tickets at a physical box office or via phone. Now, you can buy tickets online through digital box offices, secondhand sites or social...
Another type of lottery scam is a scam email or web page where the recipient had won a sum of money in the lottery. The recipient is instructed to contact an agent very quickly but the scammers are just using a third party company, person, email or names to hide their true identity, in some cases offering extra prizes (such as a 7 Day/6 Night Bahamas Cruise Vacation, if the user rings within 4 ...
A package redirection scam is a form of e-commerce fraud, where a malicious actor manipulates a shipping label, to trick the mail carrier into delivering the package to the wrong address. This is usually done through product returns to make the merchant believe that they mishandled the return package, and thus provide a refund without the item ...
The survey found that approximately 60% of consumers who participated had been exposed to a technical support scam within the last 12 months. [16] Victims reported losing an average of 200 USD to the scammers and many faced repeated interactions from other scammers once they had been successfully scammed. [16]
With icons like Taylor Swift on tour this summer, concert ticket purchases are booming. Unfortunately, so are ticket scams. In 2022, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) received over 140 reports on ...
After the Comcast deal fell through, McFarland obtained $3 million in temporary financing for Fyre through investor Ezra Birnbaum that required the company to repay at least US$500,000 of the loan within 16 days. [9] Fyre informed ticket-holders that the event would be "cashless (and cardless)", with purchases at the festival to be paid for ...