Ways to Avoid Being Scammed

I heard about multiple scams this week. How to say safe.

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This week I was was inundated with information about scammers trying to take advantage of people. One of them was my mother. One was my mother-in-law, two of her sisters, and a friend who is a doctor. Another was a traveler on Twitter.

This all in just one week.

On that note I decided to provide some information on how to avoid scammers. It’s not easy. I’m worried that I, myself, may fall victim to a scam.

Push back against insecure systems and processes

Sometimes you are asked to do things you cannot avoid that are just bad practices as I wrote in this post on insecure travel management companies: