These days we are overwhelmed with news and information and rumors and scammers and outright lies, all thanks to the World Wide Web.
This practical guide gives you the criteria to aide you in navigating that morass.
1. Be skeptical of everything you read and hear.
2. Question your sources.
3. Cross-check your information.
4. Don't perpetuate something you yourself doubt.
5. Keep in mind that there are nogoodnicks waiting to take advantage of you.
Right.. On.. Gullible. The problem is simply that some of these scammers and nogoodnicks are very VERY intelligent. So that is why we should never ever have any contact with them. They are smarter than we are. One time, 10pm late on a Sunday night, Patti was "taken in by one" saying there was a warrant out for her arrest for not reporting for Jury Duty. Patti was directed to get a PayPal Gift Card so they would rescind the warrant. Out Patti went on a late Sunday night. The court system does not work at 10pm Sunday night! They said if the police stopped her for a tail light out, they would find out there would be a warrant for her arrest. Patti purchased a PayPal Gift Card but fortunately she "caught on" before she gave them the numbers on the card. We found out later the scam was run by convicts IN prison! I then cashed in the PayPal card because I had a PayPal account. Cap and Patti
ReplyDeleteP.S. What's with the child and Santa. We assume the child is "being scammed" by Santa!
The boy in the photo is my brother. The whole point of this post was to publish the photo of him looking with such skepticism at Santa. Subtle, I know.
DeleteThere is a lot online about gift card scams. Gift card scams generally involve deceptive tactics where scammers trick people into purchasing gift cards and then have them share the card details or PIN. Typically, these scammers impersonate authority figures, relatives in distress, or service providers, coercing victims into believing they need to buy gift cards as payments or solutions to fabricated problems. Once scammers obtain the card details, they can swiftly drain the funds, leaving victims financially compromised.
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