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My classmate once ran into scammers. He begged his parents to buy him a new iPhone, but his mother said that it was too expensive, the maximum they would buy last year. And then, if a quarter finishes well.
In short, he began to look for where to buy a new one, but cheaper, and found an interesting ad. Like, you can quickly make money on a new iPhone, in just a week. You need to register on the site and write reviews for all sorts of products, download applications and take surveys. Well, everything is easy. Started downloading, performing other tasks. And, $ 1000 dripped in my personal account in five days. He thought a little more and actually buy an iPhone. But when he decided to withdraw this money, he failed. There it was necessary to enter a phone number, he received an SMS with a link, he clicked and his phone balance immediately went to minus $ 10. The personal account on that site was locked up, and everything that he had accumulated there was gone. Then I tried to go to this site too, but it no longer works.
Financial Culture Expert
Fraudsters often lure into their schemes with "super profitable" offers. They promise to get rich quick and easy money. But in the end, only the fraudsters themselves remain in the black.
This time, they decided not only to lure out other people's money, but also to get free labor. Scammers use a person for their own purposes: to catch up views on various sites or quickly collect reviews to promote products or services on the Internet.
A person performs simple tasks and thinks that he will receive a monetary reward for this. But in his personal account, points are accumulated, like in an online game, and not rubles, and he will not be able to get them. The account is blocked when a person tries to withdraw his "earnings".
At parting, the swindlers withdraw money from the balance of his mobile phone: they send an SMS with a link, and if you click on it, the person will unwittingly confirm the write-off.
Scammers can also offer, for example, to pay a small commission to withdraw money from your personal account. After the user enters his bank card details to pay the commission on the phishing page, the criminals will gain access to the account and will be able to write off everything that is there.
As a result, the desire to make money quickly turns into a waste of money and time.
In order not to fall for the bait of online scammers, it is important to follow the rules of cyber hygiene:
My classmate once ran into scammers. He begged his parents to buy him a new iPhone, but his mother said that it was too expensive, the maximum they would buy last year. And then, if a quarter finishes well.
In short, he began to look for where to buy a new one, but cheaper, and found an interesting ad. Like, you can quickly make money on a new iPhone, in just a week. You need to register on the site and write reviews for all sorts of products, download applications and take surveys. Well, everything is easy. Started downloading, performing other tasks. And, $ 1000 dripped in my personal account in five days. He thought a little more and actually buy an iPhone. But when he decided to withdraw this money, he failed. There it was necessary to enter a phone number, he received an SMS with a link, he clicked and his phone balance immediately went to minus $ 10. The personal account on that site was locked up, and everything that he had accumulated there was gone. Then I tried to go to this site too, but it no longer works.
Financial Culture Expert
Fraudsters often lure into their schemes with "super profitable" offers. They promise to get rich quick and easy money. But in the end, only the fraudsters themselves remain in the black.
This time, they decided not only to lure out other people's money, but also to get free labor. Scammers use a person for their own purposes: to catch up views on various sites or quickly collect reviews to promote products or services on the Internet.
A person performs simple tasks and thinks that he will receive a monetary reward for this. But in his personal account, points are accumulated, like in an online game, and not rubles, and he will not be able to get them. The account is blocked when a person tries to withdraw his "earnings".
At parting, the swindlers withdraw money from the balance of his mobile phone: they send an SMS with a link, and if you click on it, the person will unwittingly confirm the write-off.
Scammers can also offer, for example, to pay a small commission to withdraw money from your personal account. After the user enters his bank card details to pay the commission on the phishing page, the criminals will gain access to the account and will be able to write off everything that is there.
As a result, the desire to make money quickly turns into a waste of money and time.
In order not to fall for the bait of online scammers, it is important to follow the rules of cyber hygiene:
- Don't trust get-rich-quick ads - this is a clear sign of scam.
- Do not leave personal data on dubious sites (name, passport and mobile phone number), do not enter the full details of the bank card (number, expiration date, three-digit code on the back), as well as passwords and codes from messages from the bank.
- Before paying for anything on the Internet, first make sure that you are not viewing a phishing page. Fraudsters often copy the websites of well-known online stores, banks and other popular resources.
- Don't click on suspicious links from messages from strangers.
- Set up antivirus software on all gadgets you use. Parental control programs can be installed on the phones, computers or tablets of young children to protect them from visiting questionable sites.
- Do not store large amounts on a card that you regularly use to pay on the Internet. It is better to use a separate card for online shopping and transfer only the purchase amount to it. Parents can limit the amount or number of transactions on their child's bank card - so fraudsters will have much less chances to take possession of all his money.
