#qr scam philippines

In our latest Quickly Explained video, "How to Avoid QR Code Scams", we unravel the potential risks lurking behind those widely adopted and seemingly innocent QR codes. This concise guide touches on the tactics scammers use to take your data or more with QR codes, urging viewers to stay vigilant. A lot of people still fall for this kind of scams (see how they make money out of this here). In a recent text message of this kind, I thought I'd indulge the scammer and play along to see how much effort they'd put into this. That's 1 hour of time the scammer wasted for nothing -- an hour he could have used to really scam others. Was thinking -- in a more crowd-sourcing kind of way -- if others can also take some time and waste this scammers time, then it might just frustrate them and make them think their MO isn't cost effective. Imagine if at least 100 people pretend to have a conversation with a scammer for one day just to make them busy, the promise of Php150 load might seem un-interesting. Do you have your own text scam story to tell? Read more in our articles including "WATCH: How to avoid QR code SCAMS - Quickly Explained" and "A conversation with a Text Scammer".