these are 10 scams you should not be
falling for in 2021 plus how to protect
yourself
welcome back to the channel i'm the
youtube deal guy matt granted if you've
seen me before
hopefully i protect your wallet on a
regular basis with insider store secrets
but today we're going to show those
cyber criminals and hackers who's boss
i'm going to expose some shocking scams
tied to
real estate amazon extended warranties
fedex shipping
and a few other surprises beginning at a
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with the fake letter scam which could
plague any website that you visit
if you guys look at your screen right
now the adobe website that i'm on looks
fairly reflective of the
actual adobe website but when i enlarge
the characters in my browser
you see adobe written a little bit
differently now when i enlarge it you
can of course see that the b
has a dot below it a major scam right
now includes subtle changes
to websites that you're invited to click
on from emails that are used to market
toward you
an o in home depot might actually be a
zero
the characters that are derivative from
other languages or aladdin characters
are inserted
a lowercase l instead of the number one
all things that can trick even a trained
eye unless you really enlarge and take a
close look at your url browser
scam number two is called the fedex
texting scam this could actually
plague ups and usps users but if you
have a profile with a company like fedex
chances are you've given them your phone
number and you do get text alerts
with many of us ordering online more
than ever before
you likely get messages that appear
somewhat like this
a fedex parcel update and many times the
numbers that actually
generate these texts are random numbers
you've never seen before
they're never sent from 1 800 numbers
that you could easily call or trace back
and track
so what do they want you to do they want
you to click right here
and a lot of people might actually click
that link
so what could happen if you click that
well you might install malware or
malicious phishing information onto your
smartphone that could pull your identity
your
financial records or even some of your
login information depending on how
secure your phone happens to be
so what should you do be very careful
before you click any links that look
like this
b3smg.info
if the url structure in no way resembles
the information
tied to the specific retailer shipping
partner or website
don't click it there's so many other
ways where you can manually take your
tracking number and input it online
and if someone sends you a message and
you know you haven't ordered a package
and you're not expecting a delivery
i know we all want to know what it is
and we want to track it but that could
lead to some
really horrendous things happening to
your computer or smartphone
in the number three spot it's the air
purifier or
air filter scam and before i get to
amazon and real estate this is actually
plaguing
many communities right now in different
ways how does this work well sales
people are using the
current state of the world and confusion
and concern over
germs to target your home sometimes
you'll get a phone call saying that you
have a free
upgrade that you are eligible for and
this is merely a sales opportunity for
them to collect information
but i've actually seen in my
neighborhood people walking
door to door with air filters they wear
suits sometimes they wear what a
crosswalk guard might wear
those construction vests and they tell
you that they've got your free filter
upgrade they may actually come into your
home and change the filter in your hvac
system
claim to be from the energy company what
are they really doing sometimes they're
stealing sometimes they're
canvassing your home to see what type of
alarm system you have or
don't have and either way if you have
not ordered it i guarantee you your home
energy and your hvac system company
are not offering anything for free or
any upgrades nor should they be entering
your home for any reason
unless you have a problem scam number
four is a typo scam that could actually
plague you for any retailer you visit
online and in particular
some of the fashion brands that are a
little bit more difficult to spell let's
use birkenstock as an example
it's spelled s-t-o-c-k at the end but
let's say you spelled it
s-t-e-c-k well then you would end up on
this website
and this website at first glance might
actually look legit in fact i'm sure you
could buy shoes and give them your money
are you actually going to get that pair
of authentic birkenstocks that you
actually ordered i'm not so sure
and i've seen this with uggs the website
will have a third g or beats by dre
the dre part will have two e's but as i
scroll down
and i'm sure you guys can see they even
have a privacy policy things get
a little bit odd when we get to the
bottom and their email address is
hxh21f3a355
at temporary dash mail.net but the point
is you meant to go to birkinstock.com
and not birkinstech
so pay very close attention when you
input a website address
and they're all these small bars and
even at my age my eyes are getting older
but it's something that we do need to
pay attention to
before i protect you from a dm scam
which has been quite dominant so far in
2021 could prevent you from getting
catfished let's talk about the
promo codes and all of those reward and
click wheel websites that seem to pop up
off of facebook and instagram and even
sometimes tied to purchases from
reputable websites because again anyone
can place an
ad tied to a problematic pop-up let me
just refresh this again as we continue
with scam number five
so whether you end up with a wheel that
you can click or someone will tell you
you've won a lottery
from which you've never actually
purchased a ticket please
whatever you do you will always win
according to the website do not enter
your first your last name or your email
address
and even more important please do not
consent to any of their terms
i'm sure they'll have some wonderful
photos of smiling people who've won a
lot of money
and they'll even get into the cash for
your home scams toward the end of this
video but that's something you should
stay
very far away from scam number six
before i get to amazon and air miles and
work from home scams is tied to that dm
that i mentioned
so let's look at my facebook inbox it
happens to a lot of us we get a dm from
that extremely handsome
or gorgeous often younger individual and
in my case
sherry wants to talk granted she didn't
contact me in english but this is what
i'm going to show you to protect
yourself from all of these situations
and it's particularly strong on dating
sites
let's head over to this person's social
media page they contacted me on facebook
i'm going to find them on facebook
here i am on sherry's facebook page or
cherry
depending on how she pronounces it and
if you want to know if this image is
real and in this case it's a
very attractive younger woman because
all younger women just want to contact
me not once did that happen in high
school
college or university but you know what
sherry wants to talk so let's see if
she's real i'm going to save
her image to my desktop only for
research purposes
and if you've ever performed a keyword
search on google you can also search by
image and that's what i'm going to do
i'm going to find out if this image has
appeared anywhere else you can drag and
drop it or you could just upload it
i upload sherry google does a cross
check and then not only
is this photo prominent online it's been
used for a
waterfall straight hair advertising a
china girls
photos facebook page some type of serum
a breast enlargement cream and more than
300 other instances is that person
trying to contact me really that person
chances are it's a stock image and
someone wants to infiltrate your
personal boundaries
learn a little bit more about you and
you could actually be duped into some
type of scam
so please stay protected i know that
photo check is not going to protect you
from all situations but it's certainly a
starting point
scam number seven is a point scam tied
to your air miles or your hotel points
but primarily affecting anyone that has
traveled before
if you're not traveling as much as you
are right now it might seem normal that
an airline would contact you and say
you know what you haven't used your
points in a while they're about to
expire
but if you log into your account you can
simply secure your information
they do an incredible job mimicking the
actual website of the specific travel
partner so if you guys look very closely
at this so-called united login screen it
looks legit you'd enter your
mileage plus number and your password
and if you actually compare this to the
verified united website despite the
travel
update thing at the top both websites
look
eerily similar what's happening is
hackers don't just want your money they
don't just want your identity in many
cases they now
want your travel points hotel and
airline points have a significant value
associated with them years ago when i
contributed to usa today travel
that was a point that i would make in
many of my columns it's definitely
something that you should keep an eye on
right now
whatever you do please if you get any of
those point expiration reminders
don't click the links in the email seek
out the website on your own
so if american airlines or hyatt
contacts you or marriott
go to the websites on your own and use
your own login information on those
websites don't click the links from
emails
scam number eight is a rental scam and i
will get to another real estate scam at
the end of this video but if you guys
are
looking to rent a property hackers are
creating
duplicate listings tied to that
apartment or that condo or that home
that you want to rent
and all of the listings look almost
identical and at a time where many
people are not visiting leasing offices
or
signing their leases in person anymore
that first month deposit or your
application fee may actually be going to
a scammer or hacker so let's use the
bingham
was a building that i actually lived in
years ago when i rented my first
apartment in cleveland ohio
there are multiple listings for the
apartments and while some are reputable
many are duplicated tied to rental
offices that don't exist
so please visit the actual website for
the property even if the
price that you see from one website
appears to be lower don't submit any
application fees without
actually coordinating a phone call with
the building
and if it's a wire request or paypal or
anything like that
most major rental companies will accept
the check or they can process your
credit card
in person scam number nine is tied to
paypal and i'm gonna do amazon but if
you guys have paypal accounts or if
you're a frequent ebay shopper
and you've had a paypal account in the
past you may receive a text saying your
account has been restricted due to a
failed payment
well our first inclination when we
receive something like this is
i didn't buy anything who's using my
paypal account
who's using my credit card well no one
no one's
actually tried to make a purchase do not
click on any text from paypal if you
ever have any concern visit the paypal
website on your own use your own login
information on a trusted and secure
browser
but those texts and those phone calls
and anyone trying to get you to click
this link so you end up on a page that
looks like this
don't do it please scam number 10 is
tied to amazon there's actually two
scams associated with this and then i'm
going to showcase
another real estate scam so the extended
warranty scam is prevalent right now
you purchase something from amazon in
fact you probably purchased a lot of
things from amazon
and you get an email that appears to
come from amazon telling that you can
get a free
standard warranty all you need to do is
register your product
it looks legit you first give up all of
your personal information in some cases
if you're an educator you can actually
implicate your school
not a great situation and then you get
the second screen
that looks like this so you can link
your warranty
back to your amazon purchase whatever
you do
please don't do that there are no free
warranties being offered by third-party
sellers
after you've made an amazon purchase and
any warranty that you get from a third
place market seller is clearly laid out
in the amazon terms and conditions and
if you don't feel comfortable
with that just contact amazon support on
your own
do not give up your account login
information one other side scam tied to
amazon right now is a work from home
scam
amazon's a massive company you're gonna
see job postings sometimes on some major
work from home websites where someone
appears to be offering you rates that
are 20 25 or 30 dollars per hour to work
from home for amazon and all you need to
do is buy an
amazon work from home kit for 200 that's
very prevalent right now
there are no work from home kits tied to
amazon despite the fact that this
listing seems to be popping up
everywhere some of the other extended
warranty pages look a little bit like
this
others will actually mimic the amazon
color scheme
bonus scam number one is tied to your
vehicle i don't know how many robo calls
you guys get on a regular basis
about your expiring car warranty somehow
someone has figured out what car you
drive from a form that you filled out or
a company that has sold your information
along the way
or from a ticket or something that is in
fact public information
your car warranty is not expiring nor do
you need to give any money to that
company
cold calling you under any circumstance
dialed directly with the dealership
i feel like i get three or four of those
calls every week which is a lot
now for a final scam which is tied to
many cash
for your home offers i will preface my
advice by saying there are some legit
cash for your home offers that exist
this company that you see on your screen
right now is very well rated
and this company has local offices that
are in fact legit
and very well rated but for some of the
real estate scams going on right now you
may be contacted by a real estate lawyer
with a fake profile
or someone telling you that they are
ready to give you
cash for your home where they in fact
create a fake escrow service
you are giving up your bank account
information to receive that too good to
be true
offer and opening yourself up for all
sorts of other issues
for cash back offers from your home
please always check with a licensed real
estate agent
or real estate broker you can also
quickly order evaluation for your
property and with realtor services and
websites like zillow
actually see what you should be getting
and learn more about the people offering
to make you that too good to be true
offer for those of you that have made it
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