Tag: scams
How to help Ukraine by avoiding scams?
Online scams flourish amid solidarity fundraising for Ukraine. How to give without falling into the trap? Appeals for donations to the Ukrainian people have flourished online since the invasion of…
Donations for Ukraine: how to avoid scams
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, appeals for donations have multiplied on the Internet. In their wake, many scams have been devised to embezzle money from solidarity.…
How to spot Tinder scams – how to protect yourself from scams
Florian Kastner Too good to be true: look out for these signals to identify fake profiles and online scammers, for example on Tinder. Enlarge Recognizing fraudulent profiles – you should…
Beware of fake transfer order scams, this new kind of scam
Some hackers manage to modify email attachments, such as bank details, in order to recover money from transfers. Last January, Christine and Yves began their efforts to build a swimming…
‘Romantic scams’ are now mining cryptocurrencies
In the United States, more and more cryptocurrency scams are starting on dating apps. A new phenomenon that raises concerns. For Tho Vu and Niki Hutchinson, it all started on…
In the United States, romantic scams boosted by the pandemic
Scams on dating sites increased by 80% in 2021, according to a US agency (AFP/Archives/KOCA SULEJMANOVIC) For years, Debby Montgomery Johnson didn’t tell anyone that she had been scammed for…
In the Netherlands, tensions and scams on the student housing market
By Cedric Vallet Published today at 07:00 Reserved for our subscribers ReportThroughout the country, the offer is largely undersized compared to the demand. At the University of Maastricht, foreign students,…
Investing in a car park, how to avoid scams?
Investing in parking can be a good investment. Be careful, however, to be very vigilant when starting out. Some scammers do not hesitate to usurp the identity of certain players…
Training scams have exploded with the crisis
There have been 14,300 frauds on the personal training account since 2019. “I was naive», Regrets Sabrina. Like several million French people, this quadra received a phone call in September…
Scams on social networks: the 2021 figures are not good at all (insert your credit card number here)
Alexander Boero January 28, 2022 at 11:25 a.m. 4 © Chesnot/Getty Images Social networks remain very attractive to web scammers. They are even more and more so, according to the…
Elon Musk Attacks Twitter Over Crypto Scams After NFT Launch
© Reuters Investing.com – Twitter Inc. (NYSE:) on Thursday announced the launch of a tool allowing users to showcase non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in their profile picture, tapping into the digital…
Gendarmes and Paris public prosecutor’s office warn against transfer scams by email
The national gendarmerie and the Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau warned the public on Friday January 21 against false transfer orders transmitted via hacked email addresses. Read alsoInternet users complain about…