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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 ...
If you receive a text saying you sent money to some rando, you should just ignore it. If you’re afraid that your cash-sharing app has been hacked and that someone is using it to send money to ...
Scam #3: Charitable contribution and investment scams Watch out for this scam, where scammers research personal information about you; lifting info gleaned from our social media pages.
The scammer sends the victim a bogus payment notice for the item's price plus what they claim is a business account upgrade fee, then asks the victim to buy the upgrade from someone impersonating the payment processor so that the victim can receive their payment. The victim does not actually receive any payment, but the scammer receives a ...
The scam involves sending PayPal account holders a notification email claiming that PayPal has "temporarily suspended" their account. Instead of linking to PayPal.com, the site references in the email link to a convincing duplicate of the site at paypai.com, in the hope that the user will enter their PayPal login details, which the owner of ...
Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...
PayPal has stopped working properly, with users unable to access their funds.. The company’s status page said that it was having “a system issue” that had caused problems across a range of ...
Many scammers do not realise they are applying and being trained for tech support scam jobs, [14] but many decide to stay after finding out the nature of their job as they feel it is too late to back out of the job and change careers. [14] Scammers are forced to choose between keeping their job or becoming jobless. [12]