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How Scammers Use the Holiday Season to Steal Your Money, Information
Chase and Baltimore Police held a scam education event warning holiday shoppers about phishing, fake websites, and delivery impersonation during increased online activity.
- Recently, Chase and the Baltimore Police Department hosted a joint event to teach consumers scam-avoidance steps and distributed concrete holiday shopping tips.
- Hoping consumers will let down their guard, scammers increase activity during the holiday season to steal money and information through spoofed sites and unrealistic deals.
- Among common tricks, cybersecurity experts flagged QR-code "quishing" that redirects to dummy sites, fake-refund scams mimicking agencies, and phishing/smishing targeting shoppers via delivery services and travel-site clones.
- To protect purchases, consumers should avoid public Wi‑Fi, verify site security, use buyer‑protected payment methods on marketplace platforms, and if scammed, contact banks, file FTC complaints, and enroll in identity monitoring.
- Security firms and law enforcement note scammers may use pre-saved card details or expired cards and target executives with whaling attacks, urging enrollment in credit and identity monitoring services, the Postal Inspection Service said.
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