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These messages are sent out in bulk by the ten of millions with the scammer hoping to catch just a few people out for financial gain.<\/span>
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Online scams. \u00a0Chances are your email inbox or spam folder is full of them. These messages are sent out in bulk by the ten of millions with the scammer hoping to catch just a few people out for financial gain. Honestly there\u2019s not much you can do about it, apart from being able to spot a scam message hitting delete,[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824],"tags":[474,1663,1662,1661,1056],"class_list":["post-5999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cybercrime","tag-junk-email","tag-online-scams","tag-rescam","tag-spam"],"yoast_head":"\nHow to Waste A Scammer's Time - Tech Daily with Andy Wells<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/waste-scammers-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Waste A Scammer's Time - Tech Daily with Andy Wells\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Online scams. \u00a0Chances are your email inbox or spam folder is full of them. 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