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“A scammer will send a fake order confirmation looking like you bought something online or in a store and pretend that you need to urgently contact customer service,” said Mehta. “And they’ll give you a link or a phone number to try and contact them.”
According to CBS8’s transparency advocate platform VERIFY, fraudsters are increasingly contacting Facebook and Twitter users and hijacking group messages with enticing remote, well-paid offers. They are even targeting people directly through personal, direct messaging with posts like this:
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