Scams

If you’ve been on Facebook for any length of time, you may well have come across a post that claims that you can win a tiny house just by liking, sharing, and commenting.

Phone scammers posing as US Social Security Administration agents are calling people and demanding that they pay a bond to avoid being taken to jail. 

Keep an eye out for Facebook scam messages with the words “I can’t believe it’s you” and a link. The link opens a phishing website.

A recent scam email purporting to be from PayPal is claiming that you have added a new email address to your PayPal account. 

According to this email, which purports to be from telecommunications company Virgin Media, your last payment was declined. 

According to this email, the sender has made a video of you visiting a porn website. Supposedly, the sender installed malware that turned on your webcam.

This email, which purports to be from Google CEO Sundar Pichai, claims that you have won £950,000, a laptop, and other prizes in a Google ‘Award Promotion’.  

This ‘critical alert’ email, which purports to be from Australian bank Westpac, claims that your account phone number and email address are outdated.

According to this email, which appears to have been sent from your own email address, someone has created a video of you “pleasing yourself” while visiting porn websites.