If you own a phone, you’ve either been scammed, or someone has tried to scam you.
And the numbers say it’s likely someone has tried to scam you via your phone multiple times: According to www.aarp.org, scam artists sent almost 88 billion texts and made over 72 billion phone calls in 2021.
These criminals know if they can get you to click on a legitimate-looking link, sent by email or text, they’ll have a great chance of obtaining either your bank account or credit card number. Instead of sending you a link, they might also just call you and try to fool you by impersonating a sales agent.
Once they get this information, they either drain your bank account, or go on an online shopping spree with your credit card.
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This is a pretty scary scenario, but there is one easy way to greatly reduce the odds that you ever fall for a scam while using your phone: ignore any phone call or text when you don’t recognize the caller/sender.
I know it can be very difficult to ignore that phone call from the Unknown Caller, because what if it’s important?
Maybe they’re calling to tell you your won the lottery! Or maybe it’s your college roommate from 35 years ago, wanting to reconnect! Or maybe it’s a recruiter who will offer you your dream job! Or maybe …
The odds are incredibly high that it will never be one of those situations, that it will instead, actually be someone who wants to steal…
