Keeping You Protected
At its core, a social media scam is a form of digital deception where bad actors use platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, or X (Twitter) to trick people into giving up money, sensitive personal information, or account access. Because these platforms are built on trust and social proof, scammers find…
A crypto mining scam is a fraudulent scheme where scammers trick you into paying for "mining services" or "mining equipment" that either don't exist or don't work as promised. In a legitimate setup, "mining" is the process of using powerful computers to solve complex math problems to secure a blockchain…
A Cryptocurrency Scam is any fraudulent scheme designed to trick victims into sending cryptocurrency, sharing their private wallet keys, or investing in fake crypto assets or platforms, exploiting the decentralized and often irreversible nature of blockchain transactions. Since cryptocurrency transactions are typically final and hard to trace, they are a…
A Pump and Dump Scam is a form of illegal securities fraud where fraudsters artificially inflate ("pump") the price of a stock or asset through false, misleading, or exaggerated statements, and then quickly sell ("dump") their own holdings at the inflated price for a massive profit. This leaves the vast…
Pyramid Scheme is a fraudulent business model. In this participants make money primarily by recruiting new members who pay an initial fee or purchase a product kit, rather than by selling a genuine product or service to actual customers. The scheme gets its name because, at each level, the number…
A Ponzi Scheme is an investment fraud that pays returns to earlier investors by using the capital collected from new, incoming investors, rather than from actual profits earned by any legitimate business or investment activity. Here is a breakdown of how it works and why it always collapses: How a…
An Investment Scam (or investment fraud) is a type of fraud that manipulates people into investing money into fraudulent, non-existent, or worthless opportunities by promising high profits with little to no risk. The scammer's ultimate goal is to steal the victim's money by having them deposit funds into the false…
