It is often a good idea to
have a to-do list to manage your duties and responsibilities for the day; a
grocery list for your home, a list of expenses and payment schedules to balance
your finances, a list of suppliers and customers for your business, and of
course - a list of the top Web fraud and scams today. This can help you avoid
becoming a victim of scammers on the Internet.
Where Can You Get a List of the Top Web Fraud and
Scams Today?
There are top ten lists of
almost everything, including the latest Web fraud and scams this year. However,
it would be best for you to get this list from actual user complaints and
postings. This way, you'll know that the complaints are genuine, and you'll
also be able to learn in greater detail about the latest tactics used by
criminal syndicates for their latest online scams.
BigScammers.Com is an online
community with user-generated content. They accept postings of complaints from
users in their website. You can also sign up to receive real time alerts about
the latest Web fraud and scams whenever they're posted in this site as user complaints. These alerts are sent out as emails, making it more convenient for
you to learn about the newest Web fraud and scams today.
Top Web Fraud and Scams This Year According to
BigScammers.Com
1. Online
Dating Scams - This is where fraudsters search for unsuspecting users in popular
dating sites and apps. Their main target victims are middle-aged married men
and women who hang out in Web dating platforms to find their ideal dates. Scammers
populate their profile with details that match the ideal dates of their target
victims.
To carry out Web fraud and
scams, criminals send out enticing messages on online dating platforms to their
target victims. These fraudsters then steadily build a solid rapport with
unsuspecting users.
After baiting their victims,
they reel them in by convincing them to engage in intimate conversations with
them. These scammers trick users into using the messaging features of popular
social networks or instant messaging tools with VoIP features for their private
conversations. This way, fraudsters can manipulate their chat logs and voice
chats.
As a final touch to this
fraud and scams, criminal syndicates threaten to send screenshots of their chat
logs and MP3 recordings of their voice chats to their victim's spouse,
children, friends and employers. They also threaten to publish them all over
the Internet. In exchange for their silence, they tell their victims to send
huge sums of money through cash-only remittance centers and money transmitters.
According to the complaints
of some users in BigScammers.Com against fraud and scams, fraudsters still went
ahead and sent screenshots and recordings to their spouses and employers even
if they've already complied with their demands.
2. Phishing
Scams - This is a significant component of the latest Web fraud and scams
today. This is where criminal syndicates use fake websites to steal their
victim's account credentials, personal details and private information. These
fake sites are exact clones of popular online banking portals, shopping sites,
Webmail platforms, social networks and so on.
How this fraud and scams
works is through deceptive messages that are sent out by criminal syndicates to
their target victims. Scare rhetoric and fake urgency claims are integrated
into phishing messages to trick more users into going to fake websites. They're
told to log into their accounts to update their profile details and security
settings.
When unsuspecting users
enter their account credentials, personal details and private information into
fake websites, these are logged and stolen by criminal syndicates. They then
use the stolen details for their other illegal activities. Many of them use
these to buy and sell prohibited products in the Deep Web, such as illegal
porn, firearms, drugs and so on. Some criminals who operate Web fraud and scams
sell the stolen details to other scammers as fake identity packages, which are
then used to get online merchant accounts for cashing out stolen credit cards.
These are the most prevalent
online fraud and scams today as shown by the newest scam complaints in
BigScammers.Com. Share this with your peers so they can also learn about Web
crimes and prevent themselves from becoming victims of fraudsters.
