Email Scams v/s Phishing: Here’s All You Need to Know

Becoming a victim of any crime can be emotionally distressing, financially burdensome, and socially humiliating. While some scams are easily recognizable, others are cleverly disguised, making it difficult to detect that you are being exploited. Scams exist in various aspects of life, encompassing business, taxation, and even identity theft, all driven by fraudulent intentions to take advantage of individuals. The primary motive behind these scams appears to be financial gain. 

Email scams and text scams have become abundant, especially with the widespread use of cell phones in recent times. It is evident that every single one of these scams falls under the category of phishing schemes. 

Phishing tactics are intended to fool you into submitting personal information that the cybercriminal will then use to get access to your financial accounts, steal your identity, download malware, or otherwise cause havoc. These schemes appear and sound like valid requests from legitimate sources, making it difficult to identify them as harmful.

Messages from a credible source urging you to reset your password, a supervisor or colleague asking you to help them out by sending them money, or a merchant offering a fantastic bargain on an item you want are all examples of email phishing. Some fraudsters have grown inventive, sending scary messages that appear to be from a tax collection agency, such as the IR

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