Scamming money out of people is a lucrative trade for fraudsters but there are many ways to prevent yourself becoming a victim Fancy a job where you bombard thousands of people in a matter of seconds,and whether just one of them bites you net £2000 or £3000 pounds a day? That’s half a million quid a year. Tax-free.
Sounds too good to be proper? Most scams are, yet reports in newspapers of people falling for them proliferate. And the rewards for stealing other people’s life savings run into millions, or perhaps billions. We don’t know the proper scale of fraud because many victims withhold quiet out of embarrassment,wondering why they fell for a persuasive patter. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com