Valentine’s Day is a day of romance and expressions of love but if you’re careless you could fall as a victim to a Valentine’s Day scam.
As February 14th approaches we come to expect advertising pitches and eCards to appear in our mailboxes related to Valentine’s Day. Crooks are well aware of this and they use this time of year to trick the innocent into divulging their personal and financial information. One such phishing scheme involves an email representing that the flowers you ordered for your sweetie won’t be delivered unless you log in and re-enter your credit card.
What are the probabilities that an important number of these messages are going to make people that have ordered flowers? None of them wants their loved one to think that they’ve forgotten them on Valentine’s Day! If you click the link in that email and go into your credit card number you could have a real trouble once you get your next statement. Even if you think a message like this is genuine, go openly to the florist’s website or call them on the phone.
The same rules are relevant all year long. Treat any email message like this doubtfully and always go openly to the website rather than clicking a link in an email no matter how genuine it seems.
(Kbeautypharm)