Situation 1
In recent years, SMS newsletters or emails with reports about the winning of a car or other valuable prizes have gained wide popularity. To receive a “win”, attackers usually ask to transfer a certain amount of money to electronic accounts, motivating this with the need to pay taxes, customs duties, transportation costs, etc. After receiving the funds, they stop contacting or asking to transfer additional amounts to decorating the winnings.
Parrating yourself from such crimes is extremely simple. First of all, you need to be prudent. Think about whether you took part in the prize draw? Are you familiar with the organization that sent a notification about the winnings? Where do the organizers of the action know your contact details? If you cannot answer at least one of these questions, we recommend that you ignore the received message.
If you decide to experience happiness and get in touch with the organizers of the draw, try to get the maximum possible information from them about the action, the conditions of participation in it and the rules for its holding. Remember that the mention of your name on the website is not a confirmation of the voluntariness of the organizers of the action and the guarantee of your winning.
Any request to transfer funds to receive a win should alert you. Remember that winning the lottery entails tax liabilities, but the procedure for paying taxes is regulated by applicable law and is not carried out by transferring funds to electronic accounts of citizens and organizations or the so -called "Electronic wallets."
Be vigilant and remember that in order to win something, you need to take part in the draw. All mention that your number is “happy” and ended up in the list of lottery participants, are usually only a trick for attracting your attention.
Situation 2
There are frequent cases of fraud related to the activities of online stores and site selling sites. What attracts potential victims of scammers? First of all, unreasonably low prices. When ordering goods, you will be asked to make an advance payment, often by depositing money to a virtual wallet through the express payment terminal. Next, the store will come up with excuses for several days and promise you to an imminent delivery of goods, and then a poor -quality product will disappear without a trace.
The purpose of such sites is to deceive the maximum number of people in a short time. Creating an Internet site today is a matter of several minutes, so soon after the termination of the work, the site will be revived at another address, with a different design and under a different name.
If you want to buy goods on prepayment, remember that serious online stores will not ask you to transfer money to a virtual wallet or a mobile phone account. Look for information about the store on the Internet, see how long it is on the market. If you are dealing with the site of a large or company known to you, make sure that the resource address is written in the address line of your browser. If necessary, demand from the store administrators to provide you with information about the legal entity, check it using publicly available databases of the tax authorities and the register of legal entities. Make sure that you know the address at which you can send a claim if you are unhappy with the purchase.
Situation 3
The cases of sending SMS messages containing information that the subscriber’s bank card is blocked for a number of reasons were noticeably more frequent. Sometimes such messages call for transferring money to unlock the card, sometimes the subscriber is asked to call or send SMS to a short number.
It must be remembered that the only organization that can inform you about the state of your card is the bank that serves it. If you have suspicions that something is wrong with your card if you received an SMS notification about its lock, contact the bank immediately. The telephone number of the Bank's client service is usually indicated on the circulation of the card. Do not call and do not send messages to the numbers indicated in the SMS notification, an additional fee may be charged for this.
Situation 4
One of the popular methods of fraud based on trust is related to placing ads on the sale of goods on electronic announcements and online auctions. As a rule, scammers attract their victims with low prices and profitable offers and require transferring prepayments by transferring funds to an electronic wallet.
Prudence will help here. Carefully study the announcement, see the information about the face that posted it. If the trading platform has a system of sellers ratings, study the reviews left by other customers, not forgetting, however, that criminals can leave positive reviews about themselves using additional accounts. Take advantage of the Internet. Sometimes it is enough to enter a phone number or network pseudonym for the seller in the search form in order to find that these data have already been used in order to steal money and deceive customers.
See the average cost of similar goods. The current cost should be suspicious of you. If the seller demands to transfer him a full or partial prepayment for the purchased goods to the electronic account, think about how ready you are ready to trust a stranger. Remember that by transferring money to strangers through anonymous payment systems, you have no guarantees of their return if the transaction does not take place.
Situation 5
It is convenient to buy flights via the Internet. You do not need to go anywhere and stand in lines. You choose a flight, date, pay for a ticket and get it after a few seconds. Today, many people choose just such a way to purchase plane tickets.
Naturally, scammers cannot leave this sphere unattended. Over the past year, the number of complaints about deception when buying electronic tickets has significantly increased. Creating an Internet ticket for the sale of air tickets is a matter of several hours, it takes even less time to change its name, address and external design. As a rule, the fraud is not revealed immediately, some find out that their tickets do not exist, only at the airport. This gives scammers the opportunity to transfer their Internet resource to a new place and continue their criminal activities under a different name.
In order not to spoil your vacation or a business trip, you should carefully take the purchase of air tickets through the Internet. Take advantage of the services of the website of the airline or agency for the sale of tickets that have long established itself in the market. With caution, take the activities of sites unknown to you, especially those that attract your attention with special offers and low prices. Do not transfer money to electronic wallets or accounts in foreign banks. Do not be too lazy to call the airline to make sure that your flight exists and there are still tickets for it. These simple rules will allow you to save money and save your nerves.
Situation 6 
If you received an SMS or MMS message with a link to download a postcard, music, pictures or some kind of program, do not rush to open it. By clicking on the link, you can, without suspecting it yourself, get a virus on the phone or make a subscription for paid services.
See from what number the message was sent to you. Even if the message sent someone from the people you know, it will not be superfluous to make sure of this, because the message could be sent from an infected phone without its knowledge. If the sender is not familiar to you, do not open it.
Remember that installing antivirus software on a mobile device is not a whim, but a measure that allows you to increase your safety.
Situation 7
Many people today use various messaging programs and have accounts on social networks. For many, communication on the network has become so familiar that it almost completely replaced direct live communication.
Criminals today do not need to carry out complex technical measures to obtain access to personal data, people willingly share them themselves. By placing detailed information about themselves on social networks, users trust them for thousands of people, not all of whom deserve trust.
Communication on the network is largely impersonal, and anyone can be hidden behind the profile photograph. Therefore, such details of your life that can be used to the detriment should not be disclosed to an unfamiliar person. Remember that video and audio traction, as well as the logs of your network correspondence, can be preserved by attackers and subsequently used for unlawful purposes.
Do not forget that no one can take care of the preservation of the personal information that you do not want to share with the public better.
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