College Students Could Fall Victim to These Targeted Online Scams

College students and other young adults are a ripe target for online scams.

“Scammers are becoming more sophisticated in the tactics that they use to get people to reveal information,” says Lynn Pasquerella, president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, a global membership organization of higher-learning institutions, affiliated individuals and state agencies. College students don’t always realize “the extent to which people will go to take advantage of them,” she says.

To be sure, there are legitimate companies that help consumers apply for and understand federal student-loan relief programs such as Public Service Loan Forgiveness or income-driven repayment. But don’t give anyone your FSA ID—the email and password combination that allows entry to your federal student-loan profile—or share your date of birth or confirm anything, even if someone from a debt-relief agency seems to have pieces of information about you, experts say.

Students are prime targets because they are open to buying things in unconventional ways such as through social-media sites, says John Buzzard, lead fraud and security analyst at Javelin Strategy & Research, a provider of research and insights on the financial-services industry. “If a stranger says, ‘I have a pair of jeans available through Facebook Marketplace,’ that can lead to scam-related financial loss.

In October, FBI New Haven published a warning to college students and professors about a scam in which swindlers post online job advertisements soliciting college students for administrative positions.

Twitter is an one of exemples that confirms that The Left spreads chaos, disorder and disorientation to the people to segregate them. Fakenews, desinformation, HIDDEN MENSAGES, Left-pseudo-specialists' commentaries, robots, tons of filters, millions of algorithms, etc.

Why are comments off on your tweet about far left extremists extorting men’s soccer?

You can earn a living or steal an existence. Remember every thing from man is a scam including but not limited too : religion education Pairbonding The stock market ....

After the supreme kiboshes Biden's unlawful student loan bailout/vote buying scheme, suggest adding it to the list.

Come again please

Nothing new, these fake scholarships and loen forgiveness have existed for decades.

Yea, don’t get fooled for that

Well, they didn't learn anything in school they might as well starting learning now.

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