These are the most important warning signs to recognize to protect you from becoming a victim of financial fraud.
- Unsolicited Communication: Receiving unexpected emails, texts, calls, or even a knock on the door requesting personal or financial information.
- Pressure to Act Quickly: Scammers often create a sense of urgency, insisting you must respond immediately to avoid missing out on an opportunity or to give them what they demand.
- Too Good to Be True: Promotions, sales, giveaways, or investment opportunities that promise something free, like an iPad, or a suspiciously high return on investment.
- Oddities: Communications oddities, such as a strange email address, unprofessional font, foreign phone number, or unfamiliar website URL.
- Unusual Payment Methods: Being asked to pay via wire transfer, gift cards, or cryptocurrency, which are nearly impossible to trace and recover.
Discuss: Have you experienced any of these red flags recently? Are there any others that come to mind?