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Who are the people most vulnerable to scams?
A recent study sheds interesting light on what makes people victims of fraud and scam. Ultrascan, the agency that just concluded the research and published its findings, investigates internet fraud out of Netherlands. Its research has laid bare a fresh insight into what generally makes people vulnerable to frauds and scams.
The study revealed that people who are presently undergoing emotional trauma are most vulnerable to becoming victims of frauds and scams. It particularly mentions trauma arising out of losing a parent or being involved in a bitter separation from them, to considerably affect individuals and make them more prone to being deceived.
What this means is that falling to scams or cons has more to do with your emotional health than on factors like your education or your financial status. Your emotional state can override these factors and can increase your chances of becoming a fraud victim. The study bears out the common belief that personal tragedy like the ones mentioned above can affect our sense of judgment and make us feel more weak and vulnerable. Probably such circumstances lead us to seek affirmations from the outside world and make us more inclined to believe anything and everything that is laid before us.
This should explain why fraudsters and swindlers taste success amongst a wide cross-section of society.
They send their scam letters to thousands at one go in the hope that at least one among the thousands would bite. For them even an absent-minded click on a link inside their scam email is sufficient to get a firm grip on you as their next victim. As you wait unknowingly, the click would prompt spyware to be downloaded to your system so that it can transmit all of your critically important passwords to the fraudster at his leisure. In private, fraudsters are known to share with glee their victories over victims who are perceived by them to be cleverer, capable or more gifted than them!
The new insight from the study should make you, as an internet user, feel more enabled and in-control in the fight against scam. You can now take a fresh approach in dealing with the fantastic and hard-to-believe offers that are the harbingers of online scam.
I personally believe that success of online fraudsters can be severely dented if more people put the findings from the new study into practice.