Scams: Beware

by Chris Anderson

Scammers love to change their tactics and find new ways to rip you off. Fraudsters prefer to stick with the scams that work, but when the public gets wise to a particular scam, they change it different and as deceitful as possible. Apart from that several new types of scams are also introduced each day. With the rise of mobile technology fraudsters are using increasingly sophisticated techniques.
 
Scammers may use email, web sites, chat rooms or message boards to present fraudulent solicitations to prospective victims, to conduct fraudulent transactions or to transmit the proceeds of fraud to financial institutions or to others connected with the scheme.
 
Anyone can be targeted by a scam. Elderly people, people in distress such as financial losses, job losses etc… are most vulnerable to such scams. Consumers are easily tricked out of their account details, followed by romance scams, investment cons and email impersonation or invoice fraud.
 
This book helps you to stay abreast with most common scams causing huge losses throughout the world. It also introduces you to safe online banking, safe usage of mobile devices for banking, safe usage of public computers, business protection measures, data theft prevention measures, safe usage of social networks, safe online Trading and safe usage of passwords and PINs.

103 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 16, 2016

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