Scams on the Internet are
growing in complexity each year. This is also one of the main reasons behind
the 30% growth in the monthly online scam reports that were filed in the USA
last year compared to the numbers this 2016. There were over 600 monthly Internet
scam cases in 2015, and this has grown to more than 800 monthly scam incidents
in the USA this year.
Many criminal syndicates now
use social marketing tactics for their scams on the Internet. This is on top of
the advanced malicious technologies and the newest identity theft operations
that they use to carry out their illegal activities on the Web. This is mainly
why many US-based online security experts predict an astounding 125% growth in
losses due to card not present scams by 2018. This means $19 billion of losses
in the next couple of years compared to the $8 billion losses in 2014 due to
these credit card scams in the USA.
How BigScammers.Com Can Help
Fight Scams on the Internet
Online communities like
BigScammers.Com accept complaints from real users against scams on the
Internet. This promotes widespread awareness among other users. Through the
real time scam complaints and other postings in these websites, they can learn
about the newest tactics and schemes that are used by these criminal syndicates.
This real time information can significantly help other users to quickly spot these scams on the Internet.
They can avoid or at least be more wary when they spend time in the exact
online platforms that are targeted by these fraudsters. They can also choose
the right online security tools and Web privacy technologies to use for
defending themselves during their day-to-day activities on the Web.
Users who go to
BigScammers.Com to report these scams on the Internet can greatly benefit from
doing this. The proper local authorities can be alerted about these scams. Many
online security firms and system security development companies can use this
information to improve their tools and to create more advanced technologies.
This can help better detect, flag and block the malicious applications and
fraudulent schemes used by these criminal syndicates for carrying out their
illegal operations on the Web.
Recent Scam Complaints in
BigScammers.Com This Year
1. Online
Dating Fraud - Many BigScammers.Com users have posted a lot of complaints
against these scams on the Internet. Also known as Internet romance scams,
online dating fraud is a more sophisticated variant of extortion schemes on the
Web. This is where users of popular dating sites and apps are lured into
engaging in intimate conversations with scammers who pose as the ideal dates of
these unsuspecting users.
These fraudsters convince
their victims to take their intimate conversations outside these online dating
platforms. This is for them to be able to manipulate their text and voice chats
with their victims. They take screenshots and recordings of their intimate
conversations. They then threaten to publish these screenshots and recordings
all over the Internet, unless their victims comply with their demand for money.
Many criminal syndicates carry out these scams on the Internet by threatening
to send these screenshots and recordings directly to the spouses, children,
employers and friends of their victims.
2. Fake Tech
Support Scams - This is where users are deceived into thinking that they're
talking to official tech support agents of household tech brands like
Microsoft, Google and Apple among others. These criminal syndicates start these
scams on the Internet by distributing malicious applications all over the Web.
These malicious applications
can freeze and hijack a compromised device's system and Web browser. A pop-up
message is then displayed, which is laced with scare rhetoric and fake urgency
claims of non-existent threats. A toll free number is falsely advertised in
these pop-ups as the official tech support number of these popular tech
companies. Unsuspecting users are told to call this number and pay hefty fees
to have their devices fixed by the same criminals responsible for these
problems.
Now that you know these
recent complaints in BigScammers.Com, you'll be able to quickly spot and safely
avoid these scams on the Internet. Don't forget to share this with your family
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