The little black book of scams

WHAT TO LOOK FOR You cannot win money or a prize in a lottery A fake prize scam will tell you that you have unless you have entered it yourself, or won a prize or a contest. [...] Instead of scammers will try to keep you on the line receiving a grand prize or fortune, you will for a long time or ask you to call a different lose every cent that you send to a scammer. [...] The “inheritance” is likely to be In the classic Nigerian scam, you receive an non-existent and, as well as losing any money email or letter from a scammer asking your you might have paid to the scammer in fees help to transfer a large amount of money and taxes, you could also risk having your overseas. [...] Scammers either don’t tell you that your Scammers send you a text message from request for the first ringtone is actually a a number you may not recognize, but it subscription to a ringtone service, or it may sounds like it is from a friend—for instance: be obscured in fine print related to the offer. [...] In some cases, scammers pretend to be your old neighbour or a friend of the family, but You may get a call from two people, one for the most part, the emergency scam is pretending to be your grandchild and the directed at grandparents.