There are people on the street there, they are after your pocket. They want to take away from your wealth and disable your financial stability. They are ready to do a lot of damage to your bank account and as a result, they want to take you back to when things were not as good as they are for you today.
Some people want your wealth and are ready to take it from you, but only if you permit them. I am not writing this to scare you. So let me go straight to the point. The reason why I am writing this post is to promote your conscious mind and overcome financial ignorance
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I am talking about fraud today, the attitude of some imposters. I will borrow a phrase from the bible, which says "Wolves that come in sheep clothes." I like a short one, so I will be talking about smishing.
Smishing, simply put, means SMS phishing. This is a situation where phishing is committed through SMS. You know what phishing means, right? I thought you did. Don't rack the brain, don't stretch it too much let me tell you about it.
Have you received any emails before which include a link? The sender might look like a known person or organization. Many fraudsters impersonate banks. Immediately you click the link, your PC or phone displays a clear screen and comes back to the initial window you're working on. A male probably.
Maybe you have received a mail request for your urgent response to send detail(s) about you, to validate your account, or to update something for you. I have responded to one before.
I have received a few but smishing comes in the form of SMS messages. I received at least one every week and I thought I should inform you about what I have learned after a series of personal experiences.
The message might tell you to apply for a job opportunity that can pay you an unthinkable amount of money. Just like the one in the picture below. I have clicked some links in the past and it redirected to a WhatsApp message pane with a pre-written message with blank spaces for me to fill in my details.
I needed a job so I filled it in and sent my details. A young man whom I perceive to be of age class 35-45 spoke to called me and started asking me for the details I filled in the message I recently sent on WhatsApp.
I answered according to what I had sent in the WhatsApp message. He told me to give him a few minutes so that he could enter the details on their system and go further with the next step. He hung up the call, and after a few minutes, he called back.
He told me that my name had been added, and the next thing was to set up a bank account for me. "We use a different account to pay and we can't pay into the bank account that you were using before. I became suspicious at this point. it's too early, I won't give much details anymore.
Maybe a little bit more than I did would have pushed me into debt. At a point, he started asking me about my former bank account and my card details. It didn't end well but not too bad.
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