In July, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned about the rising risk of wire transfer scams involving rental properties. Fraudsters post fake rental listings of real properties along with their contact details. When people get in touch, the thieves convince prospective tenants to wire mo...
Once their victim has taken the bait, they will “instruct victims to liquidate their assets into cash and/or purchase gold, silver, or other precious metals” or “wire funds to a metal dealer who will ship the precious metals to victims’ homes.” ...
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Email scams are increasingly involving iTunes gift cards, instead of the old wire transfers. Lily Hay Newman as the scoop. This trend is on the rise among scammers, both for individual targets and organizations. The Federal Trade Commission reported in October that 26 percent of people who rep...
To avoid falling victim to this type of scam, alwaysdo your research (DYOR)before investing in any project. There are many variations, with most involving gaining the victim’s trust and then exploiting it by getting them to reveal their private credentials directly or indirectly through infected...
Crypto scams often aim to gain private information, such as security codes, or to trick a person into sending cryptocurrency to a digital wallet that may be compromised. Examples of scams are giveaways, hustles involving new romance, phishing, extortion emails, fake company alerts, blackmail, "...
Beware of Internet scams involving rental properties where the landlord requires payment using Western Union, money gram, wire transfers or a landlord who is out of the country or cannot meet you in person. Also be aware of scams where the tenant sends the landlord a certified cashier's check...
Government and law enforcement rarely reach out to citizens by phone, and, even if they did, they will not ask you to pay them using cryptocurrency, prepaid cards and wire transfers. Remember online hygiene.There are some basic practices that can help, but slowing down and moving more de...
I have been scammed by another crypto individual online involving ethereum and lost over 30,000. Elon wanted to help me recoup from that as well as that case overlapped timeframes with this one. 13. “I invested in a Scam that Elon Musk started” Total reported loss: $38,000 New ...