Scammers are Running Rampant
New Scams on a Daily Basis.
South Africa seems to be breeding new scams daily, and they are not stopping anytime soon. With the rise of apps and being online, it looks like a bleak future to be online and giving away our data for free with no regard for privacy. All for a price of a like and a comment.
How do Scams keep going?
Scammers are self employed or work together as a network to scam people. Everyday they cook up a new way to get into peoples heads and manipulate them into submission of their money or their livelihoods.
The scams keep upgrading even though one might know of one type of scam today, by tomorrow it has already matured and non effective because the scammers work on scale and not individuals unless they manage to hook one that will give them the attention they need. So far there are different types of scams that scammers rely on that keep working even if they don't change it.
- SMS's
- Phone calls
- Emails
- Whatsapp text
- Facebook Messenger
How do they keep going even after we know there is a new type of scam? By repeating a scam the scammers know what type of person they want, the one who will act because of urgency. Urgency makes one act too harshly and not use the safeguards issued by the ISPS, Banks, Social Media and Email providers.
This data doesn’t just sit in One Place.
Scammers are very reliant on other scammers. they share information, they buy information from each other and keep the lists updated and in rotation. Most people keep getting in the same scammer list and not
A single point of scammer entry is not the end, they keep using the same door or create a frontdoor for themselves so you can trust them, then they strike, what this means is, the scammer can ask you to send money for a scam that they have implemented, and the only way to earn your trust is to return the money tenfold, after you have gained that money and want to do it again, they disappear with your money.
Most scams are hard to validate as a scam, but they mostly result in one person losing money, that person is You. To avoid havong your personal information from scam databases, it's important to minimise where you could share your information with people, businesses and companies, even government institutions too.
If you are experiencing an active scam, please contact us to help mitigate this with you. Contact privacyagent@privant.co.za