Benefits

An offer to facilitate a benefit claim for you, but once you pay a fee and provide the requested personal information, the fraudster uses your identity to steal your benefits

Debt

Either the scammers claim you must pay a debt that doesn’t exist or they claim they’ll negotiate a genuine debt on your behalf, but either way they seek money and personal information they’ll use to steal even more money 

Deep Fakes

(AI) — the use of Artificial Intelligence to create an AI imitation of a real person you trust, and cause you to do what that fake “person” wants you to do

Family

The fraudster impersonates a dear family member, who urgently needs you to send money to solve a crisis

Lottery

 News you’ve won a big prize, but you must first pay some up-front fees or taxes in order to claim it

Phishing

 An attempt to trick you into revealing personal information by sending emails that appear to be from a legitimate company

Romance

Someone you meet online (e.g. a dating site, social media) rushes you into a speedy romance, and then asks for money (e.g. to travel to meet you, to pay an urgent medical bill)

Tech Support

A scammer poses as a representative from a well-known technology company, claiming your device has a virus or serious problem, and pressures you into paying for unnecessary

Investment

Fraudsters promise unusually high returns on investments with little to no risk, but once you transfer your money, it disappears — along with the “advisor” who convinced you to invest