Snatching an expensive phone via email

Like other modus operandi, through text messages, chat apps, or phone calls, your money, jewelries or even your precious smartphone can be snatched via email.

How was this kind of fraud done?

Mr. Roy was selling his Samsung S8+ online at OLX. An interested person, named Frank (for sure not his real name) contacted Mr. Roy with regard to the condition of the phone and price. To make the story short Mr. Frank paid Mr. Roy through a money transfer. The weird thing, out of all well known money transfer companies in the Philippines, it turned out to be a British company with the name of Xe Money Transfer. Unluckily, Mr. Frank was not intelligent enough to offer his bait. But Mr. Roy noticed that the

How to spot investment scam and online job scam

How investmet scam works? Investment scam is concealing itself in a form of trust. The scam manipulator uses trusted recognized persons like local officials such as councilors, barangay captains, policemen, or government employees, etc. as the proofs of a seemingly legitimate transaction to the public. Then these trusted persons will recruit their friends, and their friends will recruit their friends as well and so on and so forth. The lure or bait is done with