How I nearly fell victim to online scams

posted on 11 February 2011 | posted in Business and Finance


Scam artists and con people are considered to be the lowest and the most dangerous people in the food chain of a society. This is because they can go as low as pretending to care about you , and they will do anything, you name it in order to gain your trust, it is very pathetic of them if you were to ask me. Some even go as far as targeting people who are doing business and making payments through paypal in order to con or scam them. People who fall victim to such people are those who do not know it is paypal operates because if they knew they would be scammed. There was this one time I nearly fell victim to con artists. It started when paypal keeps calling me, and asking me to update my financial detail or else they will suspend my account. I panicked and told them that there was nothing to update and they said that I just give them my financial info instead. I emailed paypal and asked them why that was necessary and they told me that that was not them because if it was them they would just tell me to log in to my account and do the changes myself without involving them.