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Emergency Scams

Emergency Scams. By Thomas Neptune. What is an Emergency Scam?. An emergency scam is where a hacker pretends to be someone close to you via email or a social network like Facebook and asks you for money for emergency reasons.

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Emergency Scams

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  1. Emergency Scams By Thomas Neptune

  2. What is an Emergency Scam? • An emergency scam is where a hacker pretends to be someone close to you via email or a social network like Facebook and asks you for money for emergency reasons. • Generally, an Emergency Scam looks like a legitimate request for money from a loved one or someone close to you. Since the request usually comes from a legitimate account that’s been hacked, the victim trusts the person contacting them.

  3. What does an Emergency Scam look like? • Message looks somewhere along the lines of: “Hey, something bad has happened to me. I really need some money because of what happened. Could you give me a couple hundred dollars to help me out?” • This is usually done to elderly victims who trust the person who is being hacked.

  4. Who are the usual victims? • Senior citizens are the primary victims being targeted. Attackers use the trusted people the senior citizen personally know in order to further convince them to give them money.

  5. Example: • I received just such an e-mail the other day. It was from my 67-year-old stepmom, Judy, who had apparently run into trouble while on a trip to London. The message said she "got mugged on my way to the hotel and my money, credit cards, phone and other valuable things were taken off me at gun point." All she needed was $1,800 to pay her hotel bill and return home. The e-mail, of course, was a sham, even though it had been sent from Judy's actual MSN account and included her actual Florida address and phone number. - David Lazarus

  6. Things you can do to protect yourself from Emergency Scams: • Give a call to whoever sent you the message and confirm whether or not they are really in trouble. • Never send your personal information to them. • If you find out you’ve been tricked after you’ve given the person money, contact your banker immediately to resolve it.

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