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Are you aware of all types of online scams prevalent nowadays?

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Manohar Parakh
Are you aware of all types of online scams prevalent nowadays?

The general rule of thumb when working on the Internet is If you feel suspicious about any email at all, do not open it, and for sure don’t open any link provided inside it.

Online phishing scams have been around a while and as we turn more towards Digital Technology for almost everything. Right from social interaction to banking and shopping online, Identity and banking information thefts are running rampant.

The problem seems to be growing even more like a lot of our personal information is publicly available on Social media channels and other data collecting websites.

The problem is only growing, as more personal information is now publicly available on social media channels and websites, and hackers can easily craft personalized phishing attacks for their preys and be very convincing and easily bypass many Security systems. In recent years we have also witnessed an increase in bank fraud cases where using stolen identities, and Aadhaar information scammers have stolen money from individual bank accounts.

Kaspersky Lab a cybersecurity firm investigated the Dark Web Market and found out that personal data of any person, their complete digital life is worth even less than $50 nearly just Rs 3500.

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