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Best practices • Don't enable the "use less secure apps" feature. • Don't reply to any SMS request asking for a verification code. • Don't respond to unsolicited emails or requests to send money.
Tech support scammers are regularly targeted by scam baiting, [45] with individuals seeking to raise awareness of these scams by uploading recordings on platforms like YouTube, cause scammers inconvenience by wasting their time and protect potential victims. A good example of this is the YouTube community Scammer Payback. [66] [67]
The Spanish Prisoner scam—and its modern variant, the advance-fee scam or "Nigerian letter scam"—involves enlisting the mark to aid in retrieving some stolen money from its hiding place. The victim sometimes believes they can cheat the con artists out of their money, but anyone trying this has already fallen for the essential con by ...
Honey, a popular browser extension owned by PayPal, is the target of one YouTuber's investigation that was widely shared over the weekend—over 6 million views in just two days. The 23-minute ...
Harry Brewis [a] (born 19 September 1992), better known as Hbomberguy, is a British YouTuber and Twitch streamer. [7] Brewis produces video essays on a variety of topics such as film, television, and video games; often combining them with arguments from left-wing political and economic positions.
The white van speaker scam is a scam sales technique in which a con artist makes a buyer believe they are getting a good price on home entertainment products. Often a con artist will buy inexpensive, generic speakers [1] and convince potential buyers that they are premium products worth hundreds or thousands of dollars, offering them for sale at a price that the buyer thinks is heavily ...
Hoax Slayer originated as a Yahoo! group before the website was established. [6]Stories it has debunked include fake videos claiming to depict Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, [7] myths that the 2013 supermoon appeared bigger than it really did, [8] and a "Simon Ashton" hoax claiming that emails from Simon Ashton should not be opened because doing so would lead to your computer being hacked.
Billy McFarland and Ja Rule at the 2016 Web Summit An aircraft used to transport attendees to the festival, featuring Fyre Festival branding. The festival was organized by Billy McFarland and Ja Rule to promote the Fyre music booking app. [2] [1] Ja Rule had come to know McFarland through regular visits to events McFarland hosted for his previous venture, Magnises.