BEX2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Advance-Fee Scam, Online Auction, Antivirus Software
1 Sep 2018
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Be able to recognize possible indicators of a range common financial scams. Understand how a range of common financial scams operate. 10 most common types of scams: advance free fraud (be careful if you"re asking to provide payments in advance to receive goods or money) Involves scammer requesting fees upfront or personal info in return for goods, services, money or rewards that they never supply. If you pay, you lose money and don"t get anything back. fish your details by encouraging you to click on a link or attachment. scammer will sell a product and send a faulty or inferior quality item, or nothing a tall i. pretend to sell a product just to get your credit card details: online auction scam. claim that there is a problem with your account and request that you verify your details on a fake copy of bank"s website: card skimming copying of info from magnetic strip of a credit card/atm card.
