We wanted to bring to your attention the recent increase in social media scams designed to entice you into fraudulent financial activities.
We have probably all received the very real-looking – but fraudulent – emails that seem to come from PayPal, Amazon, Best Buy, and McAfee, which ask for us to contact them or to ‘click a link’ to update our financial information to allegedly ‘correct’ a payment we made on an ‘expired credit card’.Fraudsters are so good at what they do, even the most attentive of us can get caught up in a scam.
The new social media cons spin the scam in a different way. They tend to claim they received your contact info from someone in your social network, and they ask for a donation to a charity, or to ’their child’s’ school contest, or better yet, they reach out to ‘be friends’ and make your acquaintance, to later on target you in a more personal way. If you ever get caught up in a scam and need some assistance on where to report it or what to do, call us, we’re always here to help.