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Mind Map by Nivedha Nataraj, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Nivedha Nataraj
over 8 years ago
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How to Avoid
10 common
email and
Internet scams
- Paypal or Online credit card/ Banking
Scams
- You might actually be giving a cybercriminal you account info.
- You may get
an email that
says your
account will be
deactivated
- Check if sender's email is
suspicious or the email
includes a threat
- You might actually be giving a cybercriminal you account info.
- Survey Scams
- do not let
cybercriminals to
accsess your
accounts
- If you do you
will find
purchases
you have not
made
- Do not participate in spams
- do not let
cybercriminals to
accsess your
accounts
- Hidden URL scam
- people may get
around the
twitter
character limit
- If people ask
to be friends
with you, check
teir previous
status
- Check if their post look like
spam, following many people,
and pic. looks worthy of
someone famous
- people may get
around the
twitter
character limit
- Sick Baby Cam
- People might
post pics.
about donating
money to a
baby with
diseases
- You could
send the
money to
some con
artist
instead a
baby
- Don't share to get money!!
- People might
post pics.
about donating
money to a
baby with
diseases
- Suspicious Photo Scam
- If you see one
simply delete
the link
- If this happens
inform your friend
that their account
has been hacked
- people might tell you about an
awful pic. of you and get your
account info.
- If you see one
simply delete
the link
- Quiz Scam
- Be careful with
social network
quizzes
- Don't enter your cell
phone number for
quizzes without
knowing why
- You will have to
pay a large
amount for it
- Be careful with
social network
quizzes
- Hijacked Profile Scam
- People
might
hack into
a
friends
account
and try
to
contact
you.
- Don't
accept
money given
by your
friends
without
making sure
- If they seem
suspicius try
contacting your friend
by other means to
find if it is true
- People
might
hack into
a
friends
account
and try
to
contact
you.
- Nigerian Check Scam
- You might be asked by
some royal-sounding
person to recover a large
amount of money
- They will say
that you have to
pay the transfer
fees, but slowly
take all your
money away.
- Don't
agree
to
help
anyone
for
money
- You might be asked by
some royal-sounding
person to recover a large
amount of money
- Mystery Shopper Scam
- you might recive an
email and then give
money for a package
you will never recive
- There are many of them. All are
designed to steal your money and
find where you live
- Even if you are
asked don't send
money for
meaterials you will
be scamed
- you might recive an
email and then give
money for a package
you will never recive
- Foreign Lottery Scams
- some may say
that you haves
won a certain
amount
- to avoid it enter the name of
the lottery into google ans see
if it is real
- is when you recive an email about some kind of lottery
- some may say
that you haves
won a certain
amount
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