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The Most Popular Spam Scams


Today the technology is getting advanced day by day, and the spammers also try out various ways to victimize the user. There are lots of ways by which user are becoming the victim of the Scams each and every day, and the most importantly, the user do not even know that they have become the victim. Here you will get to know that ways how the spammers make common users in their trap, such as email phishing scams. 

Each and every one of us should know that you should not avoid opening any fake or unknown emails or clicking on any hyperlink send from an unknown email. In this way, the scammers send emails which look to be legitimate and ask you to provide all your personal information, and thus you end up in providing all your personal details. Once all your details lands in the hands of the scammer, then they would use all the details for their own vested needs or for any illegal purpose. 

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So in order to avoid yourself from such scams, here are some tips that would help you in this regard are as follows:

You are in Facebook video: Once the facebook Account of user gets hacked then in that case, they use their ID for sending messages such as “OMG somebody was tapping you”. And this compels the user to click on the video link which states that a thwarting moment present in the video has been made public. And when such bogus notification is received you would click on the video to see what is actually present in it. While doing so, it would state that the media player that you are using is not the latest one and compel you to download the application or click on software update. Once you click on it, which would redirect you to other sites and thus all the private data are stolen from your device. So, be cautious from such fake messages. 

Change password frequently: It is always advised that you should keep changing the password frequently. And if you are using multiple accounts, it is important that you should keep different password for different account. In this way, it would help you to keep your account safe and sound. 

Get to know more about: The most five popular spam scams 


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