these are 10 more scams you should not
fall for in 2021 welcome back to the
channel
i'm the youtube deal guy matt granted
i'm excited to have you here and
hopefully protect you from these
awful scams from a giant amazon hoax
to real estate investment scams work
from home and utility bill scams and
even a giant
facebook scam that will leave your jaw
on the floor i am here to help if you
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with them the first scam you should
protect yourself from
is a very prevalent amazon scam i could
have easily become a victim if i had
just simply clicked a link
in one of these emails that i'm going to
show you right now so for this first
scam that i'm going to explain
it's an email from amazon that will tell
you that your order is on hold
at an initial glance it kind of looks
legit it has the
amazon logo although it is only
addressed dear customer rather than your
name
you actually read through it there are
plenty of people that will just be
waking up in the morning a quick glance
at the smartphone they're in a meeting
and they simply click the update now
which will then
pass all of your personal credit card
information and even your
amazon account along to a hacker that
could then scam your account buy other
items that are fraudulent
and compromise your identity my general
rule of thumb is don't click on any link
in any email
if amazon does indicate there's a
problem with your account you can always
call them on your own
they have an actual customer service
number which i'll put in the video
description box
you can also just visit the amazon
website on your own without clicking any
of the links and see what's going on in
your account
and speaking of amazon if you've ever
wondered how those porch pirates
and video doorbell bandits are stealing
your packages right in plain sight of a
camera and other people in your
neighborhood
there is a new tactic that they are
using and that is the second scam that i
want to make you aware of right now and
this is a package stealing scam
if you've ordered anything from amazon
or countless other
online retailers you've likely seen a
rental truck
and a delivery person wearing a crossing
guard type construction overvest
countless companies including amazon use
these third-party independent
contractors
that typically rent cars and are not
direct employees of amazon or other
retailers
to complete many of their local
deliveries you don't always see
a ups a fedex or a dhl truck thieves
including many packaged burglars in my
community
have picked up on the fact that if they
rent a truck
and wear some type of crossing guard
vest they can actually steal packages in
plain sight
here's how it works a thief will come
out of a truck or a van with
three to four packages and find houses
where packages are already sitting
outside
they'll put a fake box in place of the
two to three that they are grabbing and
if someone catches them in the act
they simply just tell them that they
realize they were at the wrong house
or they were sent back to reclaim a
package that was mislabeled
it sounds convincing enough but these
people are so bold they will come right
up to your house while you're there
and even wave to you or your neighbors
in plain
sight and in many cases they get away
with it because they look
oddly official or at least more
reminiscent
of what you would see for a typical
amazon delivery from an
actual delivery person before i play you
actual audio tied to a phone scam that
i've received and the number three spot
is a top 10 scam you should not fall for
in 2021
it's a click bait scam and this is
something that you'll otherwise
often see tied to reputable websites
including local news so if you watch
while i scroll through this specific web
page you're going to find
actual news stories tied to this
organization and then beside ads for
toyota which don't really apply to me
because i don't need a new car
or oval cut diamond eternity rings which
again don't apply to me because i'm
already married and my wife seems to
like what she has although this looks
very nice
but then you're going to see other icons
or tiles that kind of look
similar to the actual news that's being
covered on this web page
trying to bait you to click so woman
files for divorce after seeing this
photo
not only do they want my location but if
you go through the
actual gallery before this article
usually gets to the point and you keep
clicking the continue banner and
scrolling past all of the advertisements
and you'll often see some of these scams
tied to
hollywood gossip but what they're hoping
you'll do
is eventually just miss click you'll
click here you'll click here
or you won't click the continue and then
when you do click on the wrong page
you'll often end up on something that
will then lock your computer
your computer will tell you have a virus
you need to give a company a credit card
number to unlock your computer my point
being
watch very carefully where you click and
if you do see these so-called stories
the best way to differentiate many of
these click scams from
actual reputable content is to look for
something that says sponsored
often in very small text
right under the photo and it is
confusing because it is thrown
up around actual content from a
reputable source but something that you
definitely want to be very careful of
before you click in the number four spot
is another scam you should not fall for
in 2021
it's a telephone scam where you are
rewarded for
being the best customer for a service
that you use that
isn't necessarily actually from a
company anywhere near you
a company that might be calling to offer
you a great deal
on maintenance and oil change package
for being a loyal customer call me back
they're very personable voicemails you
may have received one and
you're just thanked generically for
being a great customer with a
huge deal on your next oil change or
maintenance for your vehicle kind of
like the car warranty scam but in this
case many of us
are not as suspicious it's a kind
voicemail from someone with a specific
number to call
the issue is that when you call to book
this too good to be true oil change
offer for your next vehicle where
they're
quoting you a price of a hundred dollars
for your next eight oil changes
you are in fact giving your credit card
information and sending payment to a
company that doesn't even do oil changes
often overseas
but if you own a car you get oil changes
if you own a car you typically get
maintenance done on it
and sometimes we don't realize from that
first phone call that this isn't
actually in any way associated with the
auto body shop or the dealership where
we get our car regularly serviced
so of course just another scam to be
cognizant of which brings me to the next
scam and the number five spot
a common real estate scam that's making
its way from one town to the next one
city
to my voicemail right now with this
message
hey this is sarah i just wanted to
follow up on a voicemail i left you a
while ago
my partner and i are real estate
investors here in mount clemons
and we're interested in property that
you own if you've all thought about
selling give us a call back
248 657 anyhow
i don't own property other than this
home where i live right now
and often these companies will do
research on the specific area code
associated with your phone number
and then sometimes actually narrow down
the area where you live
and tell you that they are interested in
your property of course
they're not real all they really like
other than the d to your property
through some error that you might make
on paperwork is of course some type of
processing fee or a brokerage fee that
you pay out of pocket before they give
you that
huge amount of cash for your home from
people that are not in any way
located anywhere near you nor are they
actually licensed real estate agents
in the number six spot before i get to a
company that is possibly going to steal
a sample of your voice and use it
against you
there's another scam going around called
operation
income illusion and this is essentially
a
check scam where you will be paid from a
company to then buy supplies for a
venture that
at a first glance appears to be real one
example of this is you are
tied to some new work from home company
where they mail you a check for a
certain amount of money
then you go to an online portal and you
buy all of your supplies with the money
you've been sent
another example is this car wrap scam
going around tied to the same type of
concept
a company will send you a check you sign
up via social media through some of
these other websites that will target
your inbox
you give them your information and then
they mail you a check for two to three
thousand dollars and they tell you
keep a thousand dollars but spend two of
the three thousand dollars that we've
spent
you on this special printer you need to
print these decals for your car
or decals if that's how you prefer to
pronounce it and once you've
paid for all of the supplies through
this online portal given up your
credit card and personal information
your bank where you've cashed the check
will likely realize that is in fact
fraudulent
and when they've reversed all of the
funds from that check that was never
really yours to begin with you spent 2
000 on supplies that you're never going
to get tied to
an offer that was really too good to be
true in the first place
in the number 7 spot it's a voice sample
stealing
robo scam often from a washington dc
number or an
area code that you trust and here's one
of the things that i will play for you
as a sample
i receive phone calls every week and
when i answer my phone
i hear this
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and then it goes silent and at that
point
some of us will yell back at the person
or we'll say hello
hello i think you have the wrong number
and what's actually happening
is the other end of the telephone line
is recording a sample of your voice
now we're never quite sure how our
voices could be used against us but just
an example
many banks including td use a specific
technology called
voice print and if their system
registers that it is in fact your voice
you can sometimes have
access to a bank account which without
the regular path of verification would
allow you to potentially move funds now
this might be a bit of a stretch for
this specific example but if there's an
area code that you don't recognize
don't answer the phone call and if
there's nothing on the other end of the
phone
certainly don't supply additional
examples of your voice
in many of these cases these services
are just testing to see whether or not
your line is active
and then it gets added to some type of
massive robocall database but
it's those longer calls where you keep
saying hello and talking that someone
could potentially use your voice against
you
in the number eight spot before i tackle
that facebook marketplace scam there's
another scam
yet again tied to your utility provider
there are two examples of this scam
going around
and i recently just received this bill
informing me that i have
648 dollars due for one month of
electric use and there's absolutely no
way in my home
that that would have ever occurred so
the first thing they want you to do is
log in and review your bill and whether
you are a so-called commercial or
residential customer
and in this case all you're going to be
doing to this specific website is
providing your personal information
after getting your attention with this
crazy amount due you'll be greeted by
another page that will then tell you
that
you are in fact owed 648 because you've
overpaid your bill
and how can they get that money to you
well with your direct deposit
information that you then supply
further opening up your bank account or
credit card to more illicit activity so
first thing is first
other than the whole knowledge is power
factor which we've got going on and
again thank you so much for watching
this video
you can also independently contact your
utility providers
or go on to the website for your utility
provider and log
in on your own but don't click any links
don't click through any portal supplied
to you via email or on social media
in the number nine spot it's a facebook
marketplace scam
where someone could potentially easily
steal your phone number
here's how it works if you are trying to
buy something from someone else or
if you've listed an offer for something
that you want someone else to buy you
might
hear from the so-called buyer or seller
where they say i've been scammed before
and i want to ensure that you are a real
person give me your phone number i'm
going to text you a four-digit code give
that code back to me and then we'll wrap
up this transaction
so our initial thought is all right that
makes sense no problem here's my phone
number you give them the number
and then they text you a four-digit code
that you send back to them
it all sounds normal but what's actually
occurring is once you give
someone your phone number they are
applying for a google voice number
and for google voice to tie itself to
your account
you need that four-digit code google is
texting the four-digit code to you
you're then texting it back to a hacker
or scammer
and there you go they've just taken
possession of your phone number that
they can then turn into a
robo-calling number in about 60 seconds
flat so that is one thing you might want
to be aware of before you deal with
anyone on facebook marketplace let alone
any type of transaction on social media
in the number 10 spot before i get to
two bonuses including a door-to-door
charity scam
and something you should be aware of on
youtube there is a credit card
drop detection scam going around where
you receive an email similar to what you
see on the screen right now where it
actually has my name correct matthew
please review your alert your fico score
has decreased
and it appears to be coming from
experian if you're like me
some companies that you've done business
with have now had massive data breaches
for me it was m life resorts in las
vegas from a stay i had a couple of
years ago
or more recently a t-mobile hack to
compensate companies like
mlife or t-mobile provide free credit
score
monitoring through legitimate services
like experian the problem
is that the scammers that have
compromised those companies have caught
on to this and they will berate you with
emails
indicating that your credit score has
dropped and the alerts appear to come
from legitimate companies like experian
first thing obviously don't click the
links in the email the second tool i
have is a free resource to stay further
ahead of the scammers and if you expand
the video description box
you will find a link it's a completely
free website where you simply enter your
email address or phone number
and then in precisely one second you can
find if your phone number or
email address has been compromised and
the source from where it was compromised
or hacked so in my case there's the mgm
resorts data breach which i was aware of
and then something from a company called
driveshare that i had absolutely no
knowledge of where this breach was tied
to a
car dealership that i apparently
interacted with
had i not used this service i would not
have known about the driveshare breach
and this is one other resource to stay a
step ahead of
cyber criminals hackers and overall
thieves when it comes to your personal
information
before i wrap up this video i've got two
quick bonus scams that i want to share
with you the first is tied
to a door-to-door charity scam sometimes
it's a really cute kid sometimes it's a
very well-dressed individual with an
employee id number where they tell you
that
if you do support their charity it's tax
deductible it's going to a great cause
and before you give them
the credit card in exchange for the
pamphlet or any other personal
information
there's a quick tool if you expand the
video description box i also have a link
to this where you can see
if the organization is in fact an actual
charity
sometimes they're for-profit
organizations and other times they're
not a charity at all
you can quickly search the registered
database with the irs
tied to your city your state or in
addition to just searching the name of
the charity
you can actually check employer
identification numbers that many of us
are given when someone comes to our door
so this is a phenomenal resource
and now for the final bonus scan that i
want to share with you something that
affects users of youtube whether you are
a creator or a commenter on a video
when i comment on a video typically you
will see a check mark
and if i do respond to a comment like
this you can generally click on the
comment and then it'll take you to my
profile
page but there are other hackers that
will use the exact image of the creator
that you think you're interacting with
and then tell you to text them at their
whatsapp number or join them on telegram
or some other service where
they're just trying to grab your
personal information sometimes the
schemes appear as someone talking about
how reliable a specific cryptocurrency
is
and then 30 comments below it where
everyone is all echoing the same
sentiment
if you look at the time or date stamp
tied to the subsequent comments
you'll notice that they're all generated
within 15 or 20 seconds of the initial
comment and that's because they are
generated by computers so
whether it's someone praising a hacker
or cryptocurrency or someone pretending
to be your favorite creator
just be cognizant of that on any
platform including youtube
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