Top 10 Scamming Techniques Everyone Should Know

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internet is a good place to hang out for most of the people uh maybe for fun or finding jobs or uh doing job or chatting with peoples and friends or creating some content and sort of things can be possible in Internet and uh possibly there will be a good uh way of earning a living also is possible in Internet even though internet gives all these opportunity it it comes with its own Danger one of them is scamming there are lot of scams which happens in Internet and intention of this is to give a brief idea of what lot the scams which are happening in Internet and if we are good if if we have uh you know a brief overview of the scams then uh we could actually Safeguard ourself from all these kind of scams to happens against us or at least we could uh tell to other people the scams that is in Internet because I'm getting a lot of forwarded messages in WhatsApp email and things like that and I think uh that might be true for you as well like there are lot of scam emails and things Jun emails and things like that is happening to you as well I think so so this interest of this particular particular uh uh video is to give an idea about uh the scams which are happening in internet then number one scam which I would not is like you know fishing scam what is this fishing scam it's not fishing is fishing can spell it like p h i s h i n g fishing scams so these scams how does it work is like it will send you an email or uh WhatsApp message basically a link but that will take you to some other website which it is not pretend to be and it will ask you to log in into that particular website let's say how it works like you know um uh like for example you might receive an email from Google saying that uh uh your security is been compromised on your email and you have to reset your security password and uh there will be a link will be associated with this particular email basically uh so once you go to that link and enter the data over there such as username and password the scammer will receive all these data it's not just about the email it can happen in Instagram it can happen in uh YouTube or uh even it can happen in your credit card details as well so but to support this scam emails or the scam links the first you have to look into uh the email address generally it will not be exactly from that google.com like you know maybe it is like uh google.com gle.com or inst instagram.com like HR in Stam like you know it's not exactly Instagram and this spelling mistake of the particular URL is been shared uh not exactly if if you are getting um little bit of suspicious on uh this kind of emails and uh links you generally have to look into who is.com in that you could actually enter the uh email ID and the the link and see whether it is uh is is actually from this particular uh website or no or some for something else so there are lot of tutorials are available and there are lot of softwares also available uh to make uh the pushim scam works you could actually have uh do a bit of Googling and you know even in YouTube also you could find a lot of videos on uh how this thing is working the next one is tech support scams so this is like uh it will uh the calls you will get and uh pretend to be from Microsoft and uh your PC is been compromised and you have to install such and such softwares and this scams happening a lot over internet and if you little bit of uh Google away I mean if you little bit of Google the SC uh the text support scam you could actually get to know how this scam is working who and all is behind this and how people are catching this stuff all these things and this is one of the scam which we have to be uh really aware of uh this is tech support scams and online shopping scam this this this this is this is another kind of scam which happens like uh when you are browsing in Internet for example you are browsing in uh Instagram or something that sort and there suddenly some ad will come up like you know uh um the particular stock like uh uh ikas uh um ikas Cod is actually only 500 rupees or a canvas is like 2 rupees or some sort of things are like you know 3 rupees and things like that this this is actually uh online shopping scams that uh that are trying to sell you things uh which may be counterfeit also uh if if if you're lucky you may receive the um the stock which they are offering uh most of the time you may not be receiving this particular item which they are offering you will I mean once you paid for this uh you know you will lose your money and maybe sometime the peoples can actually take away your credit card details also so you have to be a little bit aware of this online shopping scams and Lottery and sweep State scams what what is this lottery scams basically Lottery scams is like uh it will you will receive an email or something that sort saying that you have one 1 billion of USD or you have got a land and you got you have got uh lot of stuffs uh and uh from some king or whatever like you know and uh in order to ship these things to you you have to pay a little bit of amount uh as a shipping fee or whatever that sort so this is basically a Lottery scam it's it's a it's a kind of offering you something and uh once you paid that uh you will never hear back from them so this scam also you have to be um I mean these kind of scams also is there and romance scams this is this is uh this is a kind of scam which manipulate the victim romantically like you know psychologically and uh all of a sudden you will receive an email or SMS or WhatsApp saying that I'm in love with you and so and so and you know all of sudden they will start sending you the new PS or some something that sort and once you got into that uh uh slowly they will start to take out uh money from you this is a kind of romance scam uh that is also you have to be I mean this is also one form of scam another one is fake job offers this this how does it works is like you know you will receive uh a WhatsApp message or something that you have to do uh copy paste stuff and you can you can only use your mobile phone to work you can only use your laptop to work and uh it's mostly work from home office and you what you have to do is like you have to copy paste One reviews from one website to another and another website to another and you will each each screenshot you will receive uh something that sort like these things so at uh one particular Point uh they will ask you to pay a little bit of amount in order to uh make these things working more better so this is where this is this is actually goes very wrong so these kind of things is also happening uh then advaned face cam this is also kind of Lottery scam which we have already discussed it is like you know somebody want to transfer like you know 1 billion USD to your account so in order to do that you have to pay a little bit of uh amount uh this this is how it's generally works and uh once you fall into that like you know this is for so sure like you know you will be losing your money and another one is fake antivirus scam this is like you know it's something like you know they will um they will um it's a kind of while you're browsing some popups will come and it will say your uh website your uh laptop is attacked and all your data is been at risk and or something that sort of prompt will come into the browser and it will say it will say to it will ask you to click on that particular uh URL or the particular popup once you clicked on that popup what it does is like it will uh it most of the time it will install a kind of uh um Ransom Wares in your uh uh system and uh once uh you have installed this particular system um you know the in order to get your data back you have to pay so this is basically mostly happening in the internet this is fake anir scam that that uh that that is something which you have to be aware like you know if you install uh some uh ad blockers and things like that in mosa Firefox and brave and things like that uh it can uh uh still an extent you can actually uh come out from this particular uh scam which is happening so then another one is social media giveaway scams like you know this is like you know Small Time influences not generally big influencers is not doing this particular kind of scam the small time influencers uh those who has less or no activity in their uh uh social media system they will say that they are giving away uh sort of uh cool gadgets or things like that in order to give some charity so in order to receive this you have to pay a little bit of money or that sort of stuff this is the kind of social media give a scams and these are mostly these are the most of the 10 uh important uh 10 scams I mean uh which is happening one more scam is that this is mostly is investment scams like it will ask you to invest on uh some cryptocurrencies or the something that sort from somewhere and uh once you start investing that you might be losing the money and in order to verify all this you have to look into their social media their GitHub repo their activity and the risk rate which is been given uh the third party analysis tools which gives you how much risk it is that the particular URL activity whether it is scamming and this sort of stuff and uh Fair idea to um to get a fair idea give um you know is is it's very good to understand to go through uh many website and see and many videos watch some YouTube videos related to the scams these 10 scams which I've been listing in this particular video uh these things will give you a brief idea on how all these scams are working how you can uh how you can avoid these scams and things like that