Tips for dealing with scams

 

 

 

1. No matter how legitimate it appears NEVER give ANY information over the phone, email, facebook, or anywhere at all. Instead take their information, thank them, then call your own bank, check your own facebook account. The point being to go to your own account the way you've always done. See if what the people who called or wrote said is true. If you don't see anything there, then it was a scam.

2. Don't feel foolish for falling for a scam. The scammers are very smart, they have access to technology, they spend hours and days and weeks and months figuring out how to do their scams! If you fall for a scam, well, you're just being human. 

3. Scams happen over the phone, text, mail, email, facebook, and everywhere else. They seem to come from friends, they sound like nice people, their logos/emails etc look absolutely legitimate. Assume anyone who is asking for personal or account information is NOT legitimate. Do not respond!

4.  Don't bother getting angry. If you feel angry over every scam that comes your way you'll be angry all day every day. Instead, play with them! Take up their time, tell them you've got to check the oven, put them on hold and don't come back.  Call their 800 numbers over and over and ask them a zillion questions.

5. Workshop recommended by participant/free/legitimate!

Follow the link to see dates and times of this workshop.

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