Call and Fall Scam Alert

Scammers always try to devise new ways to scam, spam and snatch the hard earned money from others. It is not all scammers are like that. Some do in need, Some by deed. Anyways a wrong path would always be called a wrong path, whatever be the reason be. Calling has been a very old technique from the days of Kevin Mitnick. After being in dark for quite a some time scammers have now once again re-inventing the merry-go-round wheel.

In the latest cases residents of Sioux Falls, SD are getting calls from an unknown person asking them to call another number (It is scammer’s ) starting with *72 or *73. This technique forwards all your calls to that number. Then the scammer gives your number to his friends all over the globe who make calls while you pay the Bill. So beware next time an unknown person tasks you to dial a number or uses your phone for a while.

Another type of scam going on is “Small Call – Large Pay“, in which you may encounter a short call from unknown number. The calling number may be from any country but the most used codes start with 473, 809, 284, 649 and 876. And your eagerness to know the unknown caller costs you up-to $20.

Sometimes these scammers use the names of emerging and big brands for their ill use. Along with spammers, scammers deteriorate the reputation of emerging brands as it has been done with Sunrise PC Support to suppress the business competition with fake calls and fake reviews.

So the best way to stay out of these scams and spams are not to get in touch with unknown people in any form. Whether it be Call, Text, E-mail, Chat or anything else. And know which number is local and which is international. While i know you cannot remember all the ISD codes at any time like, I have two list of ISD codes by Geographical Area and Alphabetical Order. Also there are some Locations with no country code.

 

Negative Digital Reputation

Online Reputation Management is one of the hottest topic that is follows Public Relations and aids the use of Social Media. Digital Reputation is nothing but opinions and reviews that others have about the user or a company, based on what they say and do online. Social Media plays a lot more active part in your SERP visibility than ever and everyone wants to harness this free “Word of Mouth” like most effective referral.

A saying comes back from the past “Everything is fair in Love and War” and it holds the best examples in this Online world. Eveyone wants that they should be trated as good guys, They should be praised by others and this is human nature which has been absorbed by companies. But there is another human nature that has been absorbed by search engines “No News is good than BAD News“. And using this feature of search engines along with the power of social media some players are playing ill in the digital reputation war.

To elaborate a bit – If you can’t do good, make others bad. Taking a live example of sunrise pc support – leaders in technical support industry, we have come to know that there is series of pre-planned campaign to demote the reputation of this tech support firm. There are all sorts of negative reviews published on various websites by just copying and pasting them that rank well in SERP’s. While if we get to second page of google (which most people do not care about) we get the reality of trust that most people has put on sunrise pc support. Some of the examples are :

• Sunrise Pc Support on Merchantcircle
• Sunrise PC Support on ResellerRatings
• Sunrise PC Support on SiteJabber
• Sunrise PC Support on SuperPages

So it proves “All said and seen online is not always true“.

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Online Scams – Blackhole for Digital Reputation

Regime – The perfect word to describe the way online scammers put their power into. It all looks like a coveted military operation. No one hears, sees or even knows about these scams until a large number of people have been attacked and their information is compromised. To be very honest the private information and compromised identities are bought and sold at even $0.50 in the Online Underworld.

Exploit kits are the latest fashion for compromising a users identity and Blackhole is the favorite of all scammers. It works on a very simple mechanism as shown below.

 

The scammers and spammers use name and identity of most trusted and upcoming brands to deceive their targets. One of such example we get while we search for a technical support company – sunrise pc support. When we google for it we get lot of similar reviews posted on various websites like they have been through copy and paste command.

These types of threats and spams are most likely to increase in number as we rely more on technology, but what matters is how do we trust and “Is what we see original ?“. This one question will at least save your identity from being stolen.

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