Security & Viruses

Spot advance fee scams involving loans grants inheritances prizes and payouts, including upfront processing insurance tax or release fees, hard-to-reverse payment methods like gift cards wires crypto and payment apps, verifying lenders with state regulators, avoiding secrecy and urgency pressure, stopping payments after a scam, disputing card charges, contacting gift card issuers banks or exchanges, reporting to the FTC and Postal Inspection Service, and protecting identity information.

Spot fake Amazon order confirmation emails texts and calls, including fake expensive orders, cancel links, fake security calls, remote-access requests, password and verification code theft, checking sender addresses and links, verifying orders directly in the Amazon app or amazon.com, reviewing Login and Security, canceling real unauthorized orders, changing passwords after credential entry, contacting banks after card entry, removing remote-access tools, reporting suspicious messages to Amazon and the FTC, and watching for follow-up impersonation attempts.