– Links and emails
Our mailbox can be a source of trouble if we use it wrong and without thinking too much about it.
It’s true that we receive a lot of emails but we must always be careful.
It often happens to be prey to waves of phishing mails.
Now you should always check what you receive.
If you get an email that you don’t recognize with some strange link in it, throw it away.
I have personally received clone mails of the electricity bill, which invited me to pay small amounts on different bank accounts and with different methods from the previous bills.
I have also received clone mails from banks, not only the one where I have the account, but also others with which I have never had to do, inviting me to login directly from the mail or sending me to an external link to login.
And then steal my credentials to access my account.
Same exact scam procedure to steal my credentials, but with the excuse of a contest in which I could win a dream vacation and an iphone.
Always check what you are doing with these emails and never ever enter your credentials or click on the links inside.
In addition to sending you on clone sites can lead you to download malware that infect your PC and steal your sensitive data.
Protect yourself at all times.
– Guru
You often see them in youtube ads or on instagram.
They have the secret, the magic formula and they want to reveal it to you.
They read 200 books a week, live in huge villas with 50 bedrooms and have garages full of Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Bentleys.
They are the self-made millionaires who want your personal growth and who want to see you rich.
OK
All beautiful, but who the heck is this guy?
And if he has all this money why does he want to sell me a course or a book?
Now, let’s get this straight, I have nothing against wealthy people who have large assets and who make their knowledge available to everyone, but these people in most cases are selling you half scams. It is hard to tell who is really good from the one who wants to scam you.
These kinds of scams appeal to those who want to make money quickly, effortlessly, at most by reading some booklet or with a magic formula.
The world of social media has made the presence of these kinds of investment gurus soar, who have all the answers and know it all.
In most cases they aim to sell a course, a book or an investment method, all seasoned with a social image of success wrapped in luxury and opulence.
The story is very similar, it starts from a childhood without prospects up to an adolescence where non-stop work and study reward up to have a stratospheric bank account, with companies around the world that bill as if there was no tomorrow and contacts with all the big celebrities in the world.
Now, we may or may not believe these gurus, maybe they are right, maybe they are really good and they will make you a lot of money.
But those of us who want to avoid risk have a few research methods.
The first thing to do is not to fall in love with what they sell us but to analyze what they propose.
Done that, if it all seems too good to be true, well we have already understood that it is a scam.
To go deeper we can start to scan google and the various social. If this guru is so good, he will have left traces around the network, with all his companies operating in the world.
Linkedin is already a showcase to start with. After that we start looking for reviews of his work on various forums or reddit.
If he has so much success and so many followers, surely you will find recent reviews of his work where you will be explained well what he does and what he teaches.
Remember that some reviews can be deleted, so do a thorough search.
Now based on the results you can decide whether to listen to these people or leave them where they are, having a laugh watching their videos with models and rented lamborghinis.
– Scammers on Telegram
Today we talk about telegram and people who contact us trying to scam us.
Typically when we are contacted by people totally unknown on telegram, 99 out of 100 we are in the presence of a scammer, who perhaps has even stolen the identity of someone famous in the environment to give a tone of reality.
Now somehow the scammer has to make sure that we send him our money.
What are the methods?
One method is to pose as a big trader or investor, with a big opportunity in his hands and he proposes it to you.
He proposes it to a perfect stranger on telegram. And already here we should block it.
But let’s go on, obviously he gives you information to seem credible and to make you trust him, plus he will try to get information from you to use against you. This is a subtle psychological game played against you and your wallet.
First of all, if he sends you files or links, don’t download anything.
You don’t know if there is malware or anything else.
He will easily ask you for money and try to put urgency on you because this opportunity is getting away, you have to hurry and it is the purchase of your life.
In case you fall into the trap, say goodbye to your funds.
Nothing will be given to you in return, you have decided to send this money to an unknown address.
No one can ever come to your rescue.
A variant of this method is to be contacted by someone who was, like us, in a chat room of some crypto project that had a price collapse or cheated its investors. This guy who contacts us pretends to be one of the founders of the group and wants to help us recover our money spent on this project.
And here he starts to ask us for personal information and then ask us for money to recover our money.
Money that obviously will be gone because this is nothing but another scammer who wants to take advantage of our negative psychological condition of the moment.
We will do anything to get our money back, even trust the first person who offers to help us.
And we would lose more money.
A more elaborate version of the first scam method is the so-called boiler room, a term for an improper negotiating tactic done in secret, in some company’s boiler room. Who would make serious and honest contracts in a boiler room.
However, the scam usually works like this.
You are contacted by someone from some big company with big investors behind them.
They have everything set up right, the website is nice and accurate, and maybe they even have a real office in some coworking space.
They present themselves in the right way and offer you a great deal, yet another opportunity of a lifetime.
You are not convinced and maybe after a while you talk in chat you go to meet them in person, and when you meet them they offer you a coffee, all nice and in this case you trust them, because they have done things right, they are serious because they are well dressed and speak well, they don’t have tattoos and are freshly shaved, they have an address and a hot secretary.
And you fall for the scam by giving them money you’ll never see again.
Because they, with a huge sense of urgency have promised you huge profits.
Profits that you will never see as your money.
Now there are some things in common in these stories:
lack of transparency on the part of those who contact you
an offer too good to be true
sales tactics that put pressure on you
an urgent request for money
Now, remember that you have no idea who is on the other end. Are you really sure they are looking out for your best interest?