Category: Scam Encyclopedia
👉 What You Need to Know… How Phone Spoofing Works: Scammers’ Tricks to Impersonate and Deceive Scammers, known as “spoofers,” use sophisticated techniques to hide their phone numbers. They often...
Got a call claiming you won the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes? Better hang up, because that’s a scammer trying to swindle you! What is PCH? PCH stands for Publishers Clearing...
Did you get a text saying it’s your daughter/sister asking you for urgent help? Tread carefully, because it just might be a scammer trying to dupe you into sending them...
As the popularity of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum continue to grow, so does the number of scams targeting users. Whether you’re looking to invest in a new cryptocurrency or...
Investment scams aren’t new. They date back to the days of traveling salesmen, and cold-calling brokers took them to new heights a few decades ago. The internet opened up a...
Setting up automatic payments for services through our credit or debit cards is a very common practice today, especially when it comes to online services such as Amazon Prime or...
Scammers are everywhere, and the scams they’re perpetrating are becoming more insidious and deceptive every. They penetrate nearly every aspect of our daily lives through social media and the smart...
You are probably familiar with the feeling of dread that comes with seeing a computer error message or experiencing a technical issue with your device. And in today’s age, it’s...
Today, when trying to match the word “scammer” to a face, the average internet user (myself included) thinks of some Nigerian scam artist hiding in the back of his cyber-café…...