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Fear and urgency are common tactics used in online scams, fraudulent shopping promotions, fake security warnings, and impersonation schemes. The tactics themselves are not a website, company, or shopping service, so they do not have a domain registration date, WHOIS record, Trustpilot rating, or individual scam score. Our assessment is that fear-based pressure deserves serious … Read more
Verdict: Deepfake technology is not inherently a scam, but its use in impersonation, financial fraud, fake online shopping advertisements, and identity deception presents a serious consumer-safety risk in 2026. Artificial intelligence can now generate convincing images, voices, and videos that make fraudulent messages appear to come from trusted people or legitimate businesses. The FBI has … Read more
Verdict: USPS is a legitimate United States government postal service, but phishing messages impersonating USPS are a documented and ongoing scam. Fraudsters send fake package-delivery alerts, unpaid postage notices, address-correction requests, and delivery-failure emails to trick people into clicking fraudulent links or sharing personal and financial information. The United States Postal Inspection Service has specifically … Read more
Verdict: Fake crypto investment platforms are a documented financial fraud risk, and consumers should treat promises of guaranteed cryptocurrency profits with extreme caution. Criminals create professional-looking trading websites, display fabricated account balances, and use fake investment advisers to persuade people to send money or cryptocurrency. The FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report identified cryptocurrency investment fraud … Read more
Verdict: Social engineering scams are a documented form of fraud, and the risk to consumers is significant. Unlike scams that depend entirely on malicious software or fake websites, social engineering relies on manipulating people into trusting the wrong person, sharing sensitive information, or making decisions they would otherwise question. Criminals may impersonate banks, delivery companies, … Read more
Verdict: Online typing jobs are not inherently scams, but “easy typing work from home” offers are a well-established vehicle for employment fraud. The biggest warning signs are promises of unusually high pay for simple work, unsolicited recruitment, requests for upfront payments or personal information, fake checks for equipment, and “training” or software fees. Current 2026 … Read more
Verdict: Delivery delay scams are a documented form of online fraud, but not every delayed order is a scam. The warning sign is usually the pattern around the delay: a seller gives vague excuses, repeatedly moves the expected delivery date, provides unusable or misleading tracking information, asks for additional shipping or customs payments, or stops … Read more
Current verdict: RISKY CATEGORY, NOT EVERY STORE IS A SCAM. Facebook itself is a legitimate advertising platform, and many genuine businesses sell products after advertising there. The problem is that scammers also use Facebook ads to send shoppers to fake or misleading online stores, and recent government, consumer-protection and Meta data confirm that this is … Read more
As of October 3, 2026, parcel delivery phishing scams are a documented form of fraud, not a legitimate delivery service or a single website. The evidence from the FTC, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, BBB and major carriers shows that scammers commonly impersonate USPS, UPS, FedEx and other delivery companies through texts, emails, fake tracking pages … Read more
When a suspicious seller, supposed government official, online investment adviser, tech-support agent, or new internet acquaintance suddenly asks for payment in Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum, or another cryptocurrency, the payment method itself deserves attention. That does not mean cryptocurrency is inherently fraudulent. Millions of legitimate transactions involve digital assets, and businesses, investors, developers, and ordinary consumers … Read more