Previous, Avoiding Becoming a Victim of Investment Fraud,
“It is effective to be familiar with the tactics of scammers
to avoid becoming a victim of an investment scam.
This time, we will give you an example of an online scam.
Please give it a try.
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Q1, Which of the following three investment management services is suspected of being an investment scam?
Which of the following three investment services is suspected of being an investment scam?
1, An investment service that provides a fixed monthly interest rate of 10%.
2, An investment service that had an annual interest rate of 10% last year and 5% this year
3, an investment service that at one time had a monthly interest rate of -1%,
3, An investment service that had a monthly interest rate of minus 1% at one time, but ultimately had an annual interest rate of 3%.
The answer is 1.
A monthly interest rate of 10% means an annual interest rate of 120%.
Mr. Warren Buffett, one of the world’s three greatest investors
Even Mr. Warren Buffett,
Even Warren Buffett, one of the world’s three greatest investors, is said to have an annual yield of about 20%,
So you can see that 10% monthly interest is a scam.
Both 2 and 3, though, have fluctuating percentages,
Usually, yields fluctuate according to the market.
Just because it went negative as in 3,
It does not necessarily mean it is a scam.
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Q2, Please select all of the following that apply to the scam
Q2, Please select all that apply to the following scam tactics.
- I received a message on a social networking service from an online retailer that I usually use.
Please log in and check your payment method.
Please log in and check.
2、When you were searching on the Internet, you registered as a member of a pay site and received a message on your behalf.
You were registered as a member of a pay site and charged for the membership fee. - You receive an Insta-DM saying, “If you write a review of an online shopping site,
you will be paid $200 to $500 a day if you write reviews of online shopping sites.
The answer is 1, 2, and 3 are all scams.
The answer is 1, 2, and 3 are all scams.
The first is a typical phishing scam.
Do not carelessly click on the URL
URL in the text.
The second is that you will be asked to register for a membership that you don’t remember,
2 is a scam in which you are asked to register for a membership you do not remember and then asked to pay for the membership.
3: “In order to write a review, you must first purchase a product,
Please purchase the product first to write a review.
and specifying a different bank account to which to transfer the money.
These are actual examples. Please be careful.
Scammers try to take advantage of our impatience
to cheat us out of our money.
Even if you encounter a situation like the above on the Internet,
I hope you will calm down and deal with the situation calmly.
and deal with the situation calmly.