Table of contents:
2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
Online fraud takes time, money and hassle. In order not to fall for the bait of robbers, find out what schemes are found on social networks and how to secure your profile.
VKontakte, Facebook, Odnoklassniki
Charitable foundations and private treatment fees
There is nothing wrong with fees for treatment and assistance to people, but things change dramatically when we talk about fraud. Fraudsters use a variety of schemes to collect money, but the end result is the same: the money goes to a third-party account, and not for treatment or assistance.
Before sending money to a foundation or an individual, check:
- Detailed reports on receipts and expenditures.
- Information about what the funds will be spent on, as well as the final amount of fees.
- Information about the person or foundation that is collecting funds.
If you are not sure or cannot find the information you need, ask your questions directly to the fund. Honest organizations will tell you about themselves and their work. Fraudsters, on the other hand, often create emotional noise by not providing detailed information. You can find lists of funds that you can trust on the Give Life and All Together sites.
Account hacking
Almost all of us received messages asking for help in a difficult situation. Fraudsters are distinguished by the fact that they ask for help exclusively with money. In such cases, attackers use the trust of a person's family and friends by inventing a variety of stories.
If this is a close friend of yours, call his cell phone and ask about what happened. If you rarely communicate, ask for facts and a phone number to contact.
Another scheme is accounts for boosting likes and subscribers. Such profiles offer to make your page popular for a small fee, and after transferring the required amount, they disappear. There is only one piece of advice that works here - don't get fooled.
Researchers from the University of Southern California have established. that the share of bots on Twitter is 9-15%. That's about 48 million users.
Twitter scams are similar to all other social media platforms, but there is a difference. One tweet is 140 characters long, so link shortening services are widespread among users. And scammers take advantage of this. The short link does not show the original URL of the page, so it is impossible to know in advance which site the user is going to.
You can hide phishing and malicious sites behind a short link.
Therefore, you should not follow the link if you are in doubt about the profile that distributes it.
Recommended:
What you need to know about the generation that has been living on social media since birth
Lifehacker talks about the alpha generation (people born after 2010). They are still children, but they are already changing the world around them
You can read 200 books a year if you give up social media
Sounds like fantasy, but it's totally real. Life hacker tells how to read more, abandoning the ubiquitous information garbage
10 social media habits you need to get rid of by age 30
Social media can show you in all its glory, or it can tarnish your reputation. Here are some social habits to forget if you are already thirty
How moving away from social media can help you grow your career
If your goal is a successful career, there are some compelling reasons why it's better to focus on your work and stop posting to Facebook about your life
What your social media avatar says about you
Friendliness, orderliness, anxiety - all these qualities can be found in the photo in the profile