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On this page, I have included a list of scams that people often fall for. If you are aware of these, you are less likely to get scammed.
More Scams: I strongly recommend you check out this website for a list of more common scams.
Info Sources: Investopedia｜ Info Submitted To Me
Scammers pose as health authorities such as the World Health Organization and the CDC to offer cures, tests, or other COVID-19 information. To not fall for this scam, make sure you are on the correct website before submitting any personal information or taking any advice from the site.
A very common trick that scammers use is sending people fishing emails. These types of emails impersonate people or companies to trick a person into sending personal information. To avoid these types of scams always make sure the sender is legitimate, they send legitimate websites. And you should always turn back if a “company” sends you an email with grammar, capitalization, spelling, or any other errors in the writing.
A very common trick scammers use is impersonating websites to trick people into sharing personal info. Scammers commonly use misspelled website addresses (names). An example is a scammer running a website titled “amazen.com”, the site is trying to impersonate amazon.com because amazen.com could be a common misspelling. To avoid these types of scams, always double-check, triple-check, and even quadruple-check to make sure you spelled the site correctly before you submit any personal information. I also strongly recommend you never submit info if there are writing errors, or if something just feels off about the site and/or if the site looks different than you remember it looking.
This trick involves a link redirecting to a website that has an error saying something like “a virus has infected your computer, call this number for support ___-___-___”. Then once you call this number the scammer will try to sell you a service that they claim will remove the virus from your computer. My recommendation for avoiding this scam is never to trust it or call the number. The first reason is a website would not be able to know you “have a virus”, the second being if you did have a virus you would probably get a message from your anti-virus software. And always remember mobile phones are not likely to get viruses, so anything about a virus on your iPhone is 100% bogus.
A common scam people encounter is scammers trying to get you to send them money on online payment transfer services to recieve a ficticous good or service.
You may have heard of an online shopping site called Wish. It is known for having products listed for a price far below its regular price. However, the vast majority of the products on it are scams and are very low quality or even something that you did not order. To avoid this scam, never shop on wish.com.
The way this scam work is a scammer will call you saying “you have not paid your electricity/water bill, and we will shut off your electricity/water in (blank) amount of minutes if you don’t pay it now”. However, this is a scam. If you actually failed to pay your electricity/water bill, your electricity/water provider likely would have notified you far before (blank) amount of minutes. If you come across this scam, do not pay them. It would be better to “have your power shut-off” then pay a scammer.
For this example, I will be talking about this annoying scam ad on YouTube. It starts off with this annoying lady saying “I have been making 1,000$ if not more with this app on my phone”, *shows the app icon to the camera*. Then, she tells her story using an app called Audible, an app made by Amazon where people buy and sell audiobooks. She then explains how she gave her tips for selling on Audible to her mother and brother. She then says, click on this free link to read my book in your email. I knew this ad was a scam, but I clicked the link for fun anyways. And it said “go-to video chat now” like I thought this lady said I would put in my email and get the course. The chat was stupid, it appeared to actually be a pre-recorded video of some annoying guy talking about the same bull-crap in the ad, and the counter of people on the call was 190, but there were 0 messages in the chat leading me to believe the 190 people in the “video call” was a fake number” At this point I got so bored with how dumb this whole thing was, so I just left. To avoid this scam, don’t trust ads from companies you don’t recognize.
This scam involves a scammer impersonating a company or organization. They will convince you that they are actually that company/organization to scam you, or get your own personal information. To avoid this scam, always verify it is the real company/organization. If you are unsure if it is real or not, you should probably not do what they are asking. However, some legitimate email addresses get hacked, so always look for grammar/spelling errors.
I didn't want to include this one as a scam because some lesser-known charities aren't always scams. But sometimes, lesser-known charities can turn out to be scams. Common places to find scam charities include the internet, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and other places on the internet. I recommend you read this article from the FBI about scam charities.
