Scammers are using technology to launch personal attacks and advance their fraud in Green Bay, Wyoming ( WBAY ).
We’re being assaulted everyday. There is no doubt, according to Steve Baker.
To help protect your home and your income, Consumer First Alert spoke with a scam professional.
Email scams like false job offers and text scams like the paid highway toll are common, hitting various possible victims with the same message.
Scammers, however, are making their frauds more personalized by using technology.
According to Baker,” Scammers are always on the cutting-edge of using tech to further their thefts.”
We spoke with Baker, a former member of the Federal Trade Commission and the Better Business Bureau who is now the creator of the .
He claimed that swindlers are stealing information from your personal life to use it against you.
” A little sound from a Twitter article or something similar, they can change that so you get a telephone call and it sounds like your child is telling you,” Grandma, I’m in trouble and I really need some money,” and it always sounds like there is a scam behind it.”
According to Baker, scammers are also using superstar sound, modifying it, and putting it together to make it appear and sound true, giving the impression that a celebrity is offering a fantastic investment opportunity. Folks are proving it.
He advised that you must halt, reflect, and examine it on your own.
One of the most frequent inquiries we get from people was posed to him by Consumer First Alert:” How do scammers find my phone number?
He goes over list brokers and how much your data is worth on Action 2 News at Five.
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