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In this variation of COVID-19 scams, the fraudster claims that the victim is eligible for a COVID-19 benefit payment. This scam is a derivative of the advance-fee scam, where the scammer will ask the victim for a small payment in return for the 'benefit'. The scammer will then ask for further payments under the guise of problems, until the ...
Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire.Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks, typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets.
Scroll through your recent text messages and emails and you'll probably come across an impersonation scam, sometimes called imposter scams. If you are not familiar with the term, it is where ...
If enough users flagged a story, the story would be sent to a third-party organization to check its veracity. If it failed, it would lose news feed priority as well as have "disputed by 3rd party fact-checkers" as a caption. Facebook is also attempting to reduce their financial incentives in an attempt to decrease the amount of fake news.
By educating yourself, taking steps to protect your information and using scam protection tools like T-Mobile’s Scam Shield, you can take the first step to reduce the possibility of being scammed.
Lacoste is using AI tech Vrai to detect counterfeit returns. Return fraud costs retailers billions, with billions lost globally. Amazon and other retailers face scams exploiting return policies ...
A 2020 study by researchers from Northeastern, Harvard, Northwestern and Rutgers universities found that older registered voters of all political orientations shared more COVID-19 stories from fake news websites on Twitter, with Republicans over the age of 65 being the most likely to share COVID-19 stories from fake news websites. [104]
The latest scam is claiming that adults over the age of 51 can get a spending card through certain government programs. However, no programs exist and Social Security benefits are limited to ...