Category: Phishing Scams

detect online job scams

How to Detect Online Job Scams

The rate of online job scams is growing and the tactics used are also advancing. Gone are the days when online scammer’s tricks look so shabby and unprofessional.

The advancement in technology has also narrowed the gap between differentiating the fake from the original. Online job scams today look so real that it will take a third eye for one to detect.

One thing you should always bear in mind is that whenever the process becomes very easy, then it is time to become more security conscious. This is not only about online jobs, but also about other areas of your online transactions.

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How to Survive The New Online Fraud or Scam Landscape

The internet fraud landscape is really changing. Getting hacked or scammed is becoming much easier as the days go by and technology advances. Cybersecurity seems to be losing the battle; the little knowledge you have the more prone you become to hacks.

The way internet scammers or fraudsters harvest their victims has changed also. Just like marketing has shifted from advert impressions to human impressions. Internet fraud has shifted from random social engineering tricks to trust-based tricks.

Phishing email and scam email

How to Recognize a Phishing Email or a Scam Email: A Working Guide

Phishing Email is one common way bad actors deliver their hacking tricks and weapons to capture their victims.

Attacks like ransomware attacks, credentials harvesting attacks, or business email compromise attacks are in one way or the other delivered through a phishing email.

A phishing email is a fake or bogus email that doesn’t come from the sender it claims to come from.

For instance, when a cybercriminal creates and sends you an email that looks similar to the ones you normally received from your bank or a company, but they are fake.

How WhatsApp is hacked

How WhatsApp Account Get Hacked

Many complain today of their WhatsApp account being hacked, but the question is; was your WhatsApp account really hacked?

The fact is that your WhatsApp was never hacked. You were only tricked into giving out your WhatsApp account to an unauthorized third party.

Hacking WhatsApp itself is not an easy thing to do. Therefore, even if it was done, your account won’t be the only target.