Journalist/musician Mark Taylor-Canfield’s livestream report on the fake retail shopping websites popping up on major social networking platforms. MTC gives some advice on how to avoid these very professional and highly convincing scams that are actually phishing expeditions trying to steal your personal financial information. Buyer beware! These retail shopping websites look legitimate.
Check on supicious websites:
https://www.scam-detector.com/find-scams
https://www.sitejabber.com
https://www.trustpilot.com
Better Business Bureau
https://bbb.org
Federal Trade Commission
https://ftc.gov
Article on fake website scams:
https://omibee.com/blog/facebook-scam-ads-how-avoid-them
MTC is Executive Director for Democracy Watch News and is a guest every Friday on The Jeff Santos Show braodcasting nationally from Boston.
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