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Alert: 5 Most Common Holiday Scams to Avoid

November 21, 2023 · Personal Finance
Holiday Scam
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Holiday phishing

Be sure you pay close attention to the emails you receive from major businesses like Apple, UPS, FedEx, or Amazon. Don’t click on any attachments or links in your emails until you confirm that they’re not sent from a malicious source.

Holiday scammers, and not only, send these emails hoping that you’ll automatically click, oblivious to the fact that the contents are designed to rob you of important personal information.

Avoid this holiday scam: You can sniff out these types of holiday scam emails by watching for things like grammatical errors, typos, or addresses that don’t match the reputed site.

Continually have updated antivirus software running on your computer to avoid this scam.

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