Today’s Fraud News from around the world:
Kelvin Collins: Certain demographic groups more vulnerable to scams: Scams involving online purchases were persistently the most common scam type reported, followed by phishing requests. Both of these scam types spiked in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The …: “Phishing” – BingNews
WhatsApp scam: Hackers pretend to be real contact in ‘devious and dangerous’ con: Instagram warned users of a dangerous phishing email and urged users to check their settings. Mr Alexis added: “Immediately after you get a WhatsApp message from someone in your contacts. READ MORE: …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Fraud Prevention Tip: The Friendly Foe – Mind boggling as it seems, normal everyday people have known to carry out this type of scam, just because there was a loophole that was available for them to exploit. In this type of scam individuals carry out online transactions through their credit or debit cards and then once they receive their goods or are done using a service they report it as an unauthorized transaction that they did not carry out, resulting in charge-backs to the business that provided the service or goods.