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• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith.In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money.
Arcade Club is a chain of amusement arcades located in the United Kingdom that originally opened in 2014. [ citation needed ] Its venues contain original arcade machines from five different decades of video gaming history.
A top scam of 2021, the fake invoice scam, is still happening in 2022.
An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is a common confidence trick. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum.
The QR codes, which appear to be connected to a 'quishing' scam, were found on about 150 parking meters along the Esplanade and in the Riviera Village area, police said.
In the L.A. County city of Alhambra, police warn that someone is leaving fake parking tickets on vehicles, with a QR code directing to a non-city website.
Authorised push payment fraud (APP fraud) is a form of fraud in which victims are manipulated into making real-time payments to fraudsters, ...