A recent social media scam was called the money flipping scam. This was set up by a criminal group who expressed that they could flip your money to make more money, like a magic trick. This of course went viral, as bizarre stuff do on social media, causing some people to fall for it, especially inexperienced users. The anonymous profile reassures people that the money making tricks are real and work, with prearranged photographs and videos of the trick performed with satisfied customers. However these are all set up to create the idea of false perception.
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Because, this went viral and looked like a real thing people were thinking maybe this could work and people was falling for it. This is how a lot of scams publicise themselves through social media. Criminals took money off of people by asking them to go out and buy a green dot money pack, which is a prepaid card, to top up with the amount you want to flip. If you want to flip £100 you would flip to and receive £1000. After topping up the card they will ask for the card details, so they can access it and add a 0 to the £100 to create £1000. But, they will tell you in order for them to add the 0 they will have to cut the profits, to basically make the false business sound real.
In the end, they simply take the card details and steal the money. No money has been flipped and what ever money deposited on the card would be seen ever again. This is one small scam of many from social media. I highlighted this one because it is fairly recent and I can relate this to my current project, 'raising awareness of criminality through anonymous profiles online', to gather research and build a final design to highlight the crimes cyber criminals commit online.
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