Seniors Against Fraud

Thanks for posting the detail of this phishing scam, holasa.

The shorturl leads to the domain myevri.track-id20.com, which was registered a few days ago.

From UK's Daily Mail newspaper The amount of money romance scam victims lost increased 60 per cent in the last six months, according to Barclays. Victims of the scams lose £10,000 on average to fraudsters, research from the bank shows. More than a third of Britons have been targeted by romance scamm...

The grandparent scam takes advantage of the victims compassion and love for their family. In this scam, the scammers call he victim and say something like “Hi, Grandma, its your favorite grandchild”. When the unaware grandparent guesses the name of the grandchild they think is calling, the scammer i...

Technical support scammers try to take advantage of a victim's lack of knowledge about computers and cybersecurity. A pop-up message or blank screen usually appears on a computer or phone, telling the victim their device is damaged or has malware and needs fixing. The message directs the victim to c...

Lottery scams will be familiar to many people and victims can be targeted by phone, email and even through the post. Regardless of how the contact is made, the process of the scam is pretty much the same. Scammers will contact an older adult to tell them they've won a lottery or prize of some kind. ...

Government impersonation scams (or government imposter scams), involve scammers calling unsuspecting victims and pretending to be from government agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Social Security Administration, or Medicare or may give fake non-existent agency names. The scammer m...

There are various websites available providing information about fraud, from those that are country-specific and run by Governments and consumer associations to other forum similar to ours that are run by groups of volunteers, so who are we and why did we decide to create yet another anti-scam forum...

According to Federal Bureau FBI statistics, in 2021 there were 92,371 victims of fraud over the age of 60, resulting in losses of $1.7 billion. Similarly, a recent article from the UK's Daily Mail newspaper gives losses within the UK for 2022 as £460 million across 57,430 cases. Similar figures can ...

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