How to spot a scam:

Phone:

1. Call claims to be from big companies but with unknown/out of ordinary numbers
2. Threatens to harm if don’t provide personal or financial info
3. Product or travel offers that sound too good to be true

While shopping (IG Shops):

1. the followers are fake

2. comment sections are off
3. over time, the username will be changed
4. no customers’ testimonies available (check on either stories or in feed)
5. feed seems awkward (low resolution photos, suspicious screenshots of customer feedbacks)
6. the prices seem unrealistically low
7. bio contains extensive reassurances like “100% ORIGINAL”
8. *unnecessary bcs there are real shops w/o adjacent links* no link to its other marketplace
like shopee, website, lazada etc

On social media:

1. Weird unexpected approaches from someone either you know (might be hacked; out of
character) or from a complete stranger
2. Usually will attach a photo of them- unasked- to appear more convincing
3. Put forward offers that seem too good to be true – “Can you work in my company?” “can
you be my first customer for my newly open salon yada yada for free of charge?”
4. Introduces self like begging for sympathy “I’m from Chicago I just lost my leg …”
5. Choice of words is a bit off – also grammar, spelling
6. Name – there’s a case where the scammer claims to be from sabah but goes by the name of
Ahmed Ammar Muhammed – um normally we don’t often meet a sabahan with that name
do we 
7. Self-claimed rich – has hotels, companies but cant be found anywhere on the net
8. Will later ask for contact number or email address– better run lah this haih – okay for job
offers, usually they don’t ask for your contact number or email, instead, they will ask you to
forward your resume via their official company email.