Stop Losing your Hard Earned Money and Savings to Scammers !!
We have been reading news of people losing money to online scams. Scams have evolved from cheating people to transfer money, to installing malware apps from url link and then wiping out victims bank accounts.
Malware apps scams are more deadly as it involves spying of your phone to get your bank account login details and then access your bank accounts to transfer away all of your money.
We will be sharing with you various line of defense to help you prevent losing money to scammers.
First Line of Defence
PLEASE DO NOT download and install any apps outside of Google Play Store.
ONLY Download and install apps that are found in Google Play Store.
Whenever an app is published in Google Play Store, the app will be checked for malicious codes by Google. Apps that are detected to be malicious will not be allowed to be published in Google Play Store.
This serves as the First Line of Defence against malware apps.
Second Line of Defence
Install trusted antivirus app that can be found in Google Play Store such as AVG that provides you with Free Basic protection for your phones.
Such antivirus apps will constantly monitor your phone for known malicious apps. The antivirus app may consume some of your battery life but it is worth it.
Third Line of Defence – The Most Important of ALL
Stop Trusting Online Advertisements on Cheap Bargains and Too Good to be True Deals
Scammers are inventing new ideas everyday in attempt to lure victims to respond to them. One of the best way to attract victims is Cheap Bargain Deals. Everyone loves a Good Bargain and always hope to score a huge saving when buying things. Scammers leverage on this, and create many story boards and process flow, all in an attempt to take away all of your money.
A Brief Outline of how such scam works.
- It starts with How to Attract Victims to Respond to Them
- Once victims reach out to the scammers, there will be a detailed and appear to be legitimate process flow story.
- Scammers will have a story ready to convince you that there are certain steps that you have to do, in order to get the bargain deal. By Not doing so, you will miss out on the deal.
- Using the fear of missing out and the potential of huge savings, scammers will convince you to download an app via an url link that is NOT a Google Play Store app link. This link is to download their malicious app into your phone.
- Once the app is downloaded and install, all the scammers have to do is wait.
- As soon as victims uses their phone to login to their bank app, their login details will have been captured and sent to scammers.
- The remaining steps are just how the scammers transfer your money out of your bank account.
You will be surprised how detailed the process of how such scam works. From the advertisements to the conversations they have prepared for the victims and how much work they put into their malicious apps.
As you can see, all of the steps in the process can proceed only if victims respond to the First Step – The Story to Attract victims.
The story can be potential jobs offering easy money or Cheap Bargain Deals. There are new stories being invented by Scammers everyday. All in an attempt to attract victims to respond to them.
By not responding to such advertisements, scammers will not be able to carry out their whole process to convince you to download their malicious app.
Thus, the Third line of Defence is DO NOT RESPOND to Online Advertisements showing too good to be true deals.
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