Regarding the prevalence of spam messages today, in the first part of this series, 5 major ways to know if an SMS you received is likely a scam message was considered, for you to protect yourself from being a victim.
In this part, we will equally look at 5 more ways to uncover spam messages when you get them on your phone.
The rate of unemployment in Nigeria is on the increase every day that a valid firm will never offer employment to any random person while there are lots of people flocking to their doors each day pleading to get the vacant seats, even at little pay. When you get such an offer of employment from firms that you never applied to, please just look away, you don’t have to follow through. The firm is now even offering a skyrocketed salary proposal? It’s nothing but a scam.
Let’s say you actually applied for the job, and you equally did that through a valid email of the firm. They even have a website with a beautiful interface. Well, if you get a message from them saying your employment is been processed but you will have to pay an upfront fee to make it authenticated, then I’m afraid you’ve not gotten yourself a job yet. But they have a beautiful website you might argue. Well, that’s all thanks to a good graphic designer.
Such proposals are most commonly associated with Get-Rich-Quick schemes. You get messages telling you to make 100,000 US dollars in a week and to get started, just click on a link. I tell you, if they are making that much in a year, they wouldn’t have the time to send you this SMS.
Scammers know what people want, what they need, and what they pray they have, and it is these that they try to exploit. Simply ignore messages telling you to get drugs that cure some common tough health problems in the twinkle of an eye. Most often than not, they aren’t real. If it cannot be authenticated on the net, it’s probably not real. Even if you feel like following such suggestions, speak with your physician.
This might be a very obvious indication of a Scam. When you start seeing lots of super-enthusiastic phrases and words in the message, a lot of exclamation marks, lots of call to action, lots of promises and proposals that wowed you, think about it again. Only scammers get too ecstatic over nothing.
Watch out for the above signs mentioned here and the other ones mentioned in part 1 of this series and you might be able to uncover all scam messages when you unavoidably get them on your phone.
Also, see five tips that can help you protect yourself from SMS spamming and all you need to know about SMS spamming.
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