Holiday Cyber Scams: How to Identify and Avoid Them!
The holidays are a time of celebrations, family gatherings, and shopping for Christmas gifts. Millions of American’s head to their local malls, shopping centers, and online retailers to find the most desired treasures for their loved ones to make it a year to remember. While it is an exciting time that elicits happy thoughts and feelings of peace, it is also a time that brings out criminals and evildoers in large numbers who seek to steal away those happy thoughts. Cyber thieves use a wide variety of tricks and scams to separate people from their money, leaving behind confusion, anger, and broken dreams. Cyber scams have become increasingly complicated and deceitful in recent years. Thieves use emails, texts, credit card skimmers, fake gift cards, and many other enticing traps to create confusion when shoppers are looking for a good deal. Shoppers must be aware of sites that they use to purchase gifts, and never input personal or financial information onto sites that aren’t trusted