Peril, however, may befall some of us during the three-day holiday because it presents ideal opportunities for cyber criminals to scam us of our hard-earned money by infecting our computers with malware in order to steal our identities, warns Tim Johnston who heads the Northern Nevada office of the Better Business Bureau.
July 4 is an especially profitable time for the scammers because they also use social media, email, text messaging and the telephone to persuade us to donate money to sham military, veterans and patriotic organizations. We also must not fall for deceptive holiday sales that “offer incredible deals” which “sound too good to be true. They are, in fact, too good to be true,” says Johnston, who adds, “We must do business only with trusted sources, using secure payment methods for our purchases and steering clear of ‘time is running out’ impulse shopping scams that hawk monetary gifts for veterans and their…
