Scammers are impersonating job-seeking platform Dice with phony employment opportunities designed to steal victims’ information. “This week, Dice received reports that individuals are receiving messages from senders claiming to be Dice recruiters on various messaging apps,” the company says.

Online shopping is the norm nowadays, which means you will likely face new threats, including brushing scams. Brushing scams are a form of e-commerce fraud where sellers create fake orders to boost product ratings and visibility on e-commerce platforms. While this might seem harmless at first glance, brushing scams can have severe consequences for unsuspecting consumers.

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“Phantom hacker” scams — tech support-style scams that trick people into transferring money by falsely claiming their computer or online security is compromised — are on the rise, and “significantly impacting senior citizens, who often lose their entire bank, savings, retirement or investment accounts to such crime”, CNBC reports.

The IRS reports that scam calls have been on the rise in recent years, with thousands of people falling victim to them.

Fraud is a problem that impacts all of us in different ways; there’s probably no one who hasn’t been directly or indirectly impacted by some kind of fraudulent activity. Have you or someone you know had their identity stolen? Has someone hacked your email or social media account? Have you had money taken from your account (think bank or credit cards here) one way or another? These are all examples of fraud and how it can affect us.

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Defeat the scammers by educating yourself and your employees about these increasingly common tax-related scams.

Scammers are increasingly resourceful when coming up with scam techniques. But they often rely on long-standing persuasion techniques for the scam to work. So, you may hear about a new scam that uses a novel narrative, but there is a good chance that the scam relies on proven scam techniques once the narrative is stripped away. These scam techniques often exploit our characteristics and heuristics, or things that make us human and fallible.