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let's start the video back in the good
old days tricksters usually flyed their
trade out in the open outside airports
not so savvy tourists got taken for a
ride all around the world you still see
tourists paying exorbitant amounts of
money for taxis driven by unlicensed
drivers over in parts of Asia they have
famous jewel scams whereby foreigners
think they're getting the gem deal of
the century in China you might get
approached by a pretty innocent looking
girl who only wants to practice English
and then she takes you to the most
expensive tea shop you've ever seen in
many countries you might get corrupt
police telling you that you committed a
misdemeanor and if you don't pay them a
huge fine you'll be going straight to
jail but today we'll look at only
digital trickery in this episode of the
infographic show worst online scams ten
phishing scams this goes at the top
because in general you're not going to
lose much if you fall for it saying that
most of us have been inundated by
phishing scams throughout our lives you
might receive an email in your inbox
that looks like it might have come from
PayPal or Microsoft or even your bank in
that email there might be a link you're
asked to click on and then you might be
asked to enter some sensitive data into
what looks like a legitimate website
it's not legitimate and you might be
handing someone your login and password
details as most of you know these
companies would never ask you to click
on a link and then enter those sensitive
details it's usually easy to see that
the email address that sent you the
email is not the one the company would
use next time your bank tells you that
your account
jeopardy or microsoft says your Outlook
account is about to be deleted just
ignore it
as we've said phishing scams are
something we put up with often but some
scams you will see have a much darker
element to them 9 lottery scam Wow
you wake up in the morning and discover
you are suddenly a millionaire
you've gone and won the lottery even
though you don't play the lottery you're
told there was some kind of mistake and
you ended up winning this has never
happened in real life and it won't you
might read something like this all
participants were selected randomly from
worldwide website through computer draw
system and extracted from over 100,000
companies then you're told to collect
your millions but there is a catch you
have to pay an amount upfront before you
can get the prize it's just a processing
fee but of course it's just a way to get
some cash from you you're thinking no
one would fall for this surely well
there's a sucker born every minute in
June a woman in Canada was told she had
won two and a half million dollars and a
car she ended up paying $13,000 for the
so-called processing fees again delete
all emails telling you that you've won
the lottery eight sextortion this scam
consists of someone telling you they
have installed malware on your machine
and it has given them access to your
camera through it they have seen you
practicing the art of carnal self
service in front of some adult content
it's not something you'd want to share
with your friends parents colleagues or
wife the email might say something like
this I made a split-screen video first
part recorded the video you were viewing
you've got a fine taste haha and next
part recorded your webcam yep it's you
doing nasty things according to an
article published in the British media
you'll be asked to make a payment
you might also read this if I don't get
the payment I will send your video to
all of your contacts including relatives
co-workers and so forth nonetheless if I
do get paid I will erase the video
immediately security experts tell us
that someone might have gotten your
password but the video of you wrestling
with your crown jewels will not exist
don't fear your secret is still safe
with you seven naked pics
- this scam is similar but in this case
there will be a photo or video view that
you don't want the world seeing this
scam is pretty simple and that at first
you'll get one of those hi darling
messages from a beautiful woman that
woman of course is some guy or guys
probably laughing their heads off
somewhere at some point you will ask for
a naked photo of you and you send it you
then get blackmailed send some cash or
that photo goes online we don't need to
tell you that this happens a lot and
that you can find many cases online hmm
what to do if this happens to you your
only choice is to take their power away
and bite the bullet tell them that you
won't pay them one person on Quora
rights
most of the time the threats are empty
and they just want to control you so let
them know you won't talk to them or
accept any contact and stick to it
good advice better advice is don't be
sharing your junk with strangers in fact
try not to share it with anyone you
never know when it might come back to
bite you 6 love scam there are also
people who will fall madly in love with
you online and you might feel you have
finally found the one scam watch tells
us scammers will go to great lengths to
gain your trust and interest such as
showering you with love words sharing
personal information and even sending
you gifts but it could all be a ruse
suddenly this person might need
something back from you they might be
experiencing a medical emergency they
might want to visit you but need the
funds to fly out to your little town
from their wretched place where they
want to escape from they might just want
gifts such as a new computer or
smartphone as they would love to keep
chatting with you but their machine is
old and it keeps breaking
we found a recent scam in Thailand where
a Nigerian men were scamming cash from
lonely Thai women the men would pretend
to be handsome European men these fake
guys would tell the woman they had come
to Thailand but they were stuffed at
customs with all their cash and just
needed around $3,000 to get through
customs some people fell for it lots of
people are lurking on dating sites with
an aim to take your cash don't be a
victim a photo with a name is just that
not yet a real human treat it that way 5
get rich quick if it sounds too good to
be true it's too good to be true in
this adage and you should get through
life without falling for too many scams
there are tons of online scams offering
amazing jobs and guess what you're the
right candidate there's no job but
you'll have to pay a bit to find that
out you might also find amazing
investments online and if they sound too
good
well they are we found lots of cases of
people being offered jobs but to land
the job a fee had to be paid upfront or
even travel costs if it meant the person
leaving the country you could just work
from home for $100 an hour and that's
just great as you have no work
experience and are not very good at
anything the job doesn't exist
thoroughly do your research on any
company you find online for exploiting
good hearts there are people who only
want to take advantage of your beautiful
heart scam watch tells us fake charity
approaches occur all year round and
often take the form of a response to a
real disaster or emergency such as a
flood cyclones earthquakes or bush fires
the charity may look legitimate but that
cash you send will not be going to
people in need and instead be filling
some unscrupulous persons pockets 3 the
Nigerian rich print scam Nigeria seems
to be home to many of the world's online
scam artists you've all likely received
an email at some point often
grammatically incoherent and it's some
rich guy who loves church and needs to
move his millions out of his country
he'll probably bless you a lot to get
his cash out he needs your help and an
upfront sum of money once you've said
that you'll get part of his great wealth
Snopes writes in a nutshell the con
works by blinding the victim with
promises of an unimaginable fortune once
the sucker is sufficiently glittery eyed
over the prospect of becoming fabulously
rich he is squeezed for however much
money he has what's a mere $5,000 when
you stand to get millions has anyone
actually fallen for this yes and lots of
people a journalist from Mother Jones
went to visit some of these scammers in
Nigeria in 2014 she said the scammers
mostly young men were honest about what
they did and they also told her many
people fall for their lies some of them
were earning $60,000 a year
two-bit
coin and other cryptocurrency scams
there are lots of Bitcoin scams one way
people might lose money in Bitcoin is
when the Bitcoin exchange gets hacked
this happened to mount GOx that lost
about 850,000 bitcoins that were worth
around 450 million dollars then you had
fake websites that offered Bitcoin
wallets or a bunch of fake icos that
might make you think you're going to
make a small fortune if you invest in a
certain cryptocurrency the US Securities
and Exchange Commission even set up a
fake ICO in 2017 with a currency called
how a coin just to show people how the
scam worked one the hitman scam this
might be the scariest scam out there
imagine one day you receive an email
from someone telling you they are
contract killers and they're going to
take out someone you love what chills
your bones is that they know everything
about you and the person who is gonna
die in other cases the hitman might tell
you that they've been hired by someone
who you know to kill you they won't do
the job if you send a large amount of
money the Australian press wrote in 2017
that this scam was becoming more popular
the scammers have done their work to
they'll likely have your address phone
number know where you work and what you
like to do when you're free so much
information can be found out about a
person with some effort someone was
doing this to people in Pennsylvania
recently asking for $5,000 in 2017 it
happened in Philadelphia with the
scammers asking for Bitcoin as payment
police said that they take this very
seriously not only are they threatening
to kill you which is a death threat but
it's also an extortion said the cops and
unlike many other scams we've talked
about you too should take this seriously
and tell the police it's unlikely anyone
is going to kill you but such a threat
is no laughing matter we have one
question for you what scams have you
come across online and have you ever
fallen for one tell us in the comments
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