{"id":3419,"date":"2016-02-02T17:05:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T10:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-protect-yourself-from-scams\/"},"modified":"2016-02-02T17:21:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T10:21:14","slug":"how-to-protect-yourself-from-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-protect-yourself-from-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"How to protect yourself from scams"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nScamming money out of people is a lucrative business for fraudsters but there are many ways to prevent yourself becoming a victim Fancy a job where you bombard thousands of people in a matter of seconds, and if just one of them bites you net \u00a32,000 or \u00a33,000 pounds a day? That\u2019s half a million quid a year. Tax-free.Sounds too good to be true? Most scams are, yet reports in newspapers of people falling for them proliferate. And the rewards for stealing other people\u2019s life savings run into millions, perhaps billions. We don\u2019t know the true scale of fraud because many victims keep quiet out of embarrassment, wondering why they fell for a persuasive patter. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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