In LatviaYesterday, 21:26 Watch Fraudsters are becoming more and more cunning – how not to get caught?

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The public is regularly alerted to new scam schemes that try to swindle people out of money via email or text messages. How to distinguish fake letters from real ones? How not to fall for the hooks of fraudsters? The program “Without Taboo” is revealed.

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The public is regularly alerted to new scam schemes that try to swindle people out of money via email or text messages. How to distinguish fake letters from real ones? How not to fall for the hooks of fraudsters? The program “Without Taboo” is revealed.

Fraudsters often hide behind the lie that they represent “Latvijas Pasta”. Ieva says that she also recently received an e-mail from “Latvijas Pasta” with a warning that additional payments must be made in order to receive her shipment.

However, Ieva immediately understood that something was wrong, because the e-mail was full of typographical errors and other signals, which made it clear that the e-mail did not come from “Latvijas Pasta”.

Both “Latvijas Pasta” representative and “cert.lv” cyber security expert Kārlis Svilāns talk about how to distinguish fraudulent letters from real ones.

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