The 6 most popular online scams: how to avoid falling into the trap

Online users often make common mistakes, which are also easily attacked.

Here’s a rundown of the top mistakes users make and how to avoid them in order to protect us and our network.

According to the FBI, in 2014, victims of online scams in the United States lost $ 672,080,232 and nearly 270,000 complaints were recorded. Nobody wants to become a victim (or a statistic), but with ever-changing methods, hackers are always trying to be one step ahead of the crowd. Here is a list of the six most popular online scams and how to avoid being scammed.

Receive an unsolicited email offering a job, typically not in your area of ​expertise, often for a mystery shopper or similar position. When you accept, you are paid by check or money order, for an amount greater than that offered by the ‘employer’. You will then be prompted to send the difference back, and only there will you discover that the original check or payment order was fake, and you are ‘out of the money’ compared to the money sent to the fake employer.