What are the most popular scams on the Internet?

 

types of online frauds in india

 

 ⚠️ Scam Alerts

 

Some of the current trending online common scams and frauds are mentioned below, These are top online scams used by cyber criminals to trick you,you often wonder how to this online frauds work,what is modus operandi?

• Online E-commerce website fraud - in this type sellers creates an e-commerce website with, that has attractive products catalog, either that is copied from other websites or default products come with any website theme template, once they create a website, they mostly use google AdWords or social media marketing, once customers make payment they do not deliver products or deliver different products, in short period of time they will delete that domain.
•  Forex trading fraud - in this type, the seller will create a website for forex trading signal, mostly they do marketing through social media, the website mostly has foreign contact number and address, they do not respond once customer make payment.
• E-learning or Job vacancy fraud - in this type, the seller will create a website that contains information for e-learning or job vacancy, they may also announce vacancy through N.G.O, in actual they do not provide such services.
• Fake passport websites - as per the current latest trend of passport, there are many fake websites that do not give any services once a customer makes a payment, they act as a government website, a customer often realizes it after making payment to that website, mostly they use ad in google and social media.
• Facebook marketplace sellers - Beware advertisement that displayed in facebook marketplace, they are mostly fraud.
• Olx, Quickr UPI Payment requests - this is the latest scam, mostly scammer send UPI money collection request from various apps like phone, google pay etc., to ad-owner,ad-owner think that as a UPI money receive the request and mistakenly they send that amount from their bank account instead of receiving it. 

People should be more aware of not trapping in such types of scams on the internet, also the government should make any portal for filing such fraud/scams online, most of the peoples do not make complaints it does require to file FIR physically.