{"id":25822,"date":"2024-09-24T13:52:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T20:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=25822"},"modified":"2024-09-25T13:27:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T20:27:55","slug":"danger-of-a-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/danger-of-a-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a moment! Your money may be at risk from a scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25825\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25825\" style=\"width: 655px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25825\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas-2-300x169.png\" alt=\"Danger of a scam\" width=\"655\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas-2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas-2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas-2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas-2-18x10.png 18w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas-2-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas-2-696x392.png 696w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas-2-1068x601.png 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Your money may be at risk due to a scam. It is important to stop and verify your information and confirm the source of the call or message before making any payment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>[We are on WhatsApp.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaKsQjT5K3zOISbFea2Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Start following us now<\/a>]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Take a moment! Your money could be at risk due to a scam\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/3HYSQLBPStiHi1ICwFC5Jx?si=3c402d7ed4c8484a&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The risk of being scammed by supposedly government or company personnel has increased in recent months, as it often starts with a routine message or call that quickly becomes an alert and an emergency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Has anyone told you to move or transfer money to protect it?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Warning! Take a moment to verify the information and confirm what you are being told, as you may be about to be scammed and lose your money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Federal Trade Commission data, only 5 percent of people who are scammed file a report, said Kati Daffan, deputy director of the Federal Trade Commission&#039;s Division of Marketing Practices, during a briefing held <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethnic Media Services<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From January to June 2024, around 360 thousand reports have been filed with more than 1.3 billion dollars in losses, this is only surpassed by investment scams, the average loss is 800 dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Focusing on the scams that have been generated by supposed personnel pretending to be from government agencies or well-known businesses, the figures show a large increase in the last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25824\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas1-300x170.jpeg\" alt=\"Danger of a scam\" width=\"649\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas1-300x170.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas1-18x10.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas1-150x85.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas1.jpeg 667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The scammers&#039; tactics have changed; now it&#039;s done as if it were a team effort involving several people and institutions; for example: they contact people by phone or text to clarify a purchase, then they make you contact a supposed government or banking agency and convince you that everything is real so that you give them money.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the feeling of urgency they make you believe that you are safeguarding your money but in reality you move it to a fictitious account, that is how it currently works, said Kati Daffan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emma Fletcher, an investigator for the Federal Trade Commission, explained that many scammers pose as government agents in an attempt to reach an agreement on debts owed. In many cases, there is no debt, but they fake it and people may believe it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf we can prevent a scam, it is the best way to help our community,\u201d which is why a lot of information is made available to the community to avoid being scammed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25823\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas2-300x165.jpeg\" alt=\"Danger of a scam\" width=\"636\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas2-300x165.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas2-768x423.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas2-18x10.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas2-150x83.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas2-696x384.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/estafas2.jpeg 862w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is important to file a complaint if you have been scammed, as each complaint helps to gather information to conduct an investigation, analysis and then generate information that helps prevent more people from being scammed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/sheriff-christina-corpus-accusations\/\"> Telephone fraud: it can happen to all of us, detect it and avoid it!<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Estamos en WhatsApp.\u00a0Empieza a seguirnos ahora] El peligro ante una estafa por supuesto personal gubernamental o de alguna empresa, ha aumentado en los \u00faltimos meses, pues muchas ocasiones se empieza por un mensaje o llamada de rutina que muy r\u00e1pido se convierte en una alerta y urgencia.\u00a0 \u00bfLe ha dicho alguien que mueva o transfiera [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":25825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-negocios"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25822"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25855,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25822\/revisions\/25855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}