{"id":5135,"date":"2024-02-27T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inboxdollars.com\/blog\/?p=5135"},"modified":"2024-02-28T00:27:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T00:27:44","slug":"how-to-protect-yourself-from-online-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inboxdollars.com\/blog\/how-to-protect-yourself-from-online-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Protect Yourself from Online Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As we conduct more and more business online\u2013from communicating via email to making purchases, the potential for falling victim to fraudsters becomes more likely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, we\u2019ve seen an increase in incidents where people members have been targeted by online scammers and wanted to provide tips to avoid being taken advantage of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If someone claiming to be associated with InboxDollars requests your password, it is a scammer. InboxDollars will <em>never <\/em>ask you to provide a password. Speaking of passwords, check out these\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/accounts\/answer\/32040?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tips from Google<\/a>\u00a0for creating strong passwords.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Please be cautious of Facebook messages or Facebook comments from any unofficial \u201cInboxDollars\u201d Facebook accounts. If you encounter suspicious messages or comments, do not engage with them. Instead, report them directly to our administrative team through our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/InboxDollars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook book page<\/a>\u00a0or through our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inboxdollars.com\/help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">customer service portal<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>InboxDollars will only ask you to complete activity within your account on our website only. If you receive directions to do an activity outside of InboxDollars site (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inboxdollars.com\/\">https:\/\/www.inboxdollars.com\/<\/a>), it is most likely a scam.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As we conduct more and more business online\u2013from communicating via email to making purchases, the potential for falling victim to fraudsters becomes more likely. Unfortunately, we\u2019ve seen an increase in incidents where people members have been targeted by online scammers and wanted to provide tips to avoid being taken advantage of.","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":5138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1536],"tags":[1560,1505,1559],"class_list":["post-5135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-announcement","tag-featured-post","tag-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inboxdollars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inboxdollars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inboxdollars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inboxdollars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inboxdollars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inboxdollars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inboxdollars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inboxdollars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inboxdollars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inboxdollars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}