I have often heard of fake homeless people and beggars where people simply take advantage of the generosity of others and make a ton of money doing so. For example, I heard stories before that fake homeless people can get over $200 a day which definitely isn’t ethically right. It just increases the skepticism of […]
It’s about that time again where here it is tax season and usually around this time there are a lot of scammers who send people fake e-mails in hopes to steal money and information from people. This one actually had a word document. You should basically delete it and I found it funny how on […]
While going on a hike today I got this odd text message where at first it implied that it was from Canada Revenue and that they had sent me a refund of $175. They also include a link which stated it was http://Canada-Agency-Revenue-Refund.ecommerceweb.com.br where I assume most people would be curious to click on it. […]
At first when I read this I thought it could potentially be legitimate. However, knowing that phishing scams and such are very prevalent that of course made me skeptical. With this e-mail they send you a message stating there is an error with your tax return and that you should respond. They also attach a […]
These types of e-mail scams are getting way too obvious in many ways for myself. But I can see how people can get tricked into this. When I saw the email subject of “Receive a refund from us for an amount of 551.44” and the sender was “Canada Revenue Agency” All bells went off as […]
This was a very odd posting I saw where I knew it had to be fake from the start. It started out on a craigslist post apparently where someone posted an anonymous message claiming to be a person under the name “Schwa Yang” alleged that they won the Powerball lottery and was going to give […]