Almost half of Irish adults have reported being targeted by scam calls, texts or emails, according to new research by Fraud Smart.
“They play on the fact that someone in your house might be waiting for something from An Post, or maybe someone who has access to your car did drive through a toll and didn’t pay it,” she said.and humanness and then sending out a scam text in the hopes that you are a law-abiding citizen, a good egg who wants to do the right thing.Consumer protectionists warn of a scam: Be careful when calling from alleged Microsoft support. Photo: Christin Klose/dpa-tmn. October 2019.
“The only way I knew for certain that it was a scam was I didn’t put in my six-digit code, I put in 123456, and it let me log into the next screen. “The first thing that I’d always look for if they are looking for your sensitive information is on the top, in the web browser bar, the HTTPS, that S signifies that it’s secure,” she said.
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