Sample Solution

CAMS
Types of Scams:
• Attempts to gain personal information:
Scammers use all kinds of sneaky approaches to steal your personal details.
Once obtained, they can use your identity to commit fraudulent activities such as using your credit card or opening a bank account.
• Buying or Selling:
Scammers prey on consumers and businesses that are buying or selling products and services. Not every transaction is legitimate.
• Dating and Romance:
Scammers take advantage of people looking for romantic partners, often via dating websites, apps or social media by pretending to be prospective companions. They play on emotional triggers to get you to provide money, gifts or personal details.
• Fake Charities:
Scammers impersonate genuine charities and ask for donations or contact you claiming to collect money after natural disasters or major events.
• Investments:
If you are looking for a fast way to make money, watch out – scammers have invented all sorts of fake money-making opportunities to prey on your enthusiasm and get hold of your cash.
• Jobs &Employment:
Jobs and employment scams trick you into handing over your money by offering you a ‘guaranteed’ way to make fast money or a high-paying job for little effort.
• Threats &Extortion:
Scammers will use any means possible to steal your identity or your money – including threatening your life or ‘hijacking’ your computer.
• Unexpected Money:
Scammers invent convincing and seemingly legitimate reasons to give you false hope about offers of money. There are no get-rich-quick schemes, so always think twice before handing over your details or dollars.

• Unexpected Winnings:
Don’t be lured by a surprise win. These scams try to trick you into giving money upfront or your personal information in order to receive a prize from a lottery or competition that you never entered.
Smart Tactics to Scam People:
• YampaScam:
Yampa scam was an entrance examination, admission and recruitment scam that were unearthed in the Indian state of MadhyaPradesh in 2013.
It involved seamstress including politicians, senior and junior officials and businessmen systematically employing imposters to write papers, manipulate exam hall seating arrangements and supply forged answer sheets by bribing officials.
The scam involved 13 different exams conducted by Yampa, for selection of medical students and state government employees (including food inspectors, transport constables, police personnel, school teachers, dairy supply officers and forest guards) where the final results were rigged.
The exams were taken by around 3.2 million students each year, many of whom were actually paid proxies for other undeserving students.