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Is your new internet friend trapped in foreign country? Do they need $$ to buy a plane ticket home or pay for a relative's hospital bills? Or have you joined a new crypto trading club on FB? If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.
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It is incredibly scary to hear about the number of scams proliferating the internet these days (especially during COVID times).
Unfortunately as most of us have been spending a lot more time in front of computers due to lockdowns and social distancing, so have scam artists.
These criminals prey on naive or unsuspecting victims.
Sometimes, these victims can be people who just want to meet new friends online or are looking for love on dating websites.
Sometimes these criminals prey on those who are looking for get-rich-quick schemes online.
Sometimes, while we are stuck at home, unable to take vacations or spend our money on regular outtings with friends and family, we look to invest our extra pocket money on new opportunities on the internet. This can be in the form of traditional stock trading, cryptocurrencies, or new "business opportunities" that come about from word-of-mouth or from social media channels.
Either way, it's important to be EXTREMELY careful because if you fall into the wrong trap you might not only lose your money (often thousands or tens of thousands of dollars), have your personal information sold to other criminal enterprises online, but also have your identity stolen which can have devistating effects for YEARS after the fact.
In this lesson we will look at examples of sketchy websites as well as red flags to look for when your new internet friend starts acting strange. This could mean analyzing the communications from a suspicious person (looking for typos, grammatical mistakes, or plot holes in their story) or verifying websites and documents online.
For example, if a company is located in England, why is all of their website traffic coming from India and the Philippines? Or why is a company registered in the British Virgin Islands (a known tax-evasion location for shell companies). Or, why can't you find any of a founder's information on social media, even when they run a supposedly successful international business?
How about when a person says they need to borrow money to pay their embassy to get their passport back, or they will be stranded in a foreign country?
Let's look at some of these examples together (or any interactions you're unsure about) so that we can BOTH make safe and educated decisions online.
Unfortunately as most of us have been spending a lot more time in front of computers due to lockdowns and social distancing, so have scam artists.
These criminals prey on naive or unsuspecting victims.
Sometimes, these victims can be people who just want to meet new friends online or are looking for love on dating websites.
Sometimes these criminals prey on those who are looking for get-rich-quick schemes online.
Sometimes, while we are stuck at home, unable to take vacations or spend our money on regular outtings with friends and family, we look to invest our extra pocket money on new opportunities on the internet. This can be in the form of traditional stock trading, cryptocurrencies, or new "business opportunities" that come about from word-of-mouth or from social media channels.
Either way, it's important to be EXTREMELY careful because if you fall into the wrong trap you might not only lose your money (often thousands or tens of thousands of dollars), have your personal information sold to other criminal enterprises online, but also have your identity stolen which can have devistating effects for YEARS after the fact.
In this lesson we will look at examples of sketchy websites as well as red flags to look for when your new internet friend starts acting strange. This could mean analyzing the communications from a suspicious person (looking for typos, grammatical mistakes, or plot holes in their story) or verifying websites and documents online.
For example, if a company is located in England, why is all of their website traffic coming from India and the Philippines? Or why is a company registered in the British Virgin Islands (a known tax-evasion location for shell companies). Or, why can't you find any of a founder's information on social media, even when they run a supposedly successful international business?
How about when a person says they need to borrow money to pay their embassy to get their passport back, or they will be stranded in a foreign country?
Let's look at some of these examples together (or any interactions you're unsure about) so that we can BOTH make safe and educated decisions online.
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