Top Online Scams of Christmas for 2013

Many people in the world think that everyone in the world will be doing good things at this moment, but actually the reality is not. At this time, people shop more than whole year and hence internet shopping also increases. Therefore, online scams have increased. Many online business portals are also taking steps to stop them i.e. TradeKey scams. That is why internet security firms have put together a list of 12 scams of Christmas.

Bogus Gift Cards

Gift cards and Christmas cards can be easily promoted via misleading ads, for holiday gifts, especially on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, etc. These ads claim exclusive offers on Christmas or gift cards or different deals and then lead the customers to pay for phony ones online. All the online business websites do not sell it; hence there is nothing like Tradekey scams in this niche.

Dangerous E-Seasons Greetings

E-cards from a friend that looks perfect can cause users to download malware or other virus after opening and attachment or clicking a link.

Deceptive Online Games

Be aware of the sites that offer full versions of games. Check the source of any game before you or your children download it as they often loaded with malwares.

Fake Charities

Cyber criminals do not leave any chance of getting others money. At this time of years when many people give charity to poor people and people in disaster, cyber criminals come in action to get their money in their pockets. They design fake websites and people donate them for charity.

Holiday Mobile SMS Scams

No one can enter your phone unless you give permission to enter. To get your permission scammers make application and let the people think that they are legitimate. They download the application and while downloading you give the access of many things of your phone to these applications. And then they become able to send promotional SMS to premium rate numbers without your permission. Authentic developers do not design this type of applications like TradeKey scams is nothing in their mobile app.

Hot Holiday Gift Scams

There also are many advertisements on internet offering numerous exclusive deals that should not be true at the first place. Scammers will post phony contests on various sites and may send promotional emails to you and trick you to get your personal information or may enforce you to download virus or malware into your device.