The changes to how we do things brought about by COVID-19, including the implementation of community quarantines, have increased our reliance on on-line platforms and services. Such reliance on these virtual modes of communicating and conducting commerce is dependent on extending much trust to a people we do not know or physically see. Unfortunately, this has also increased our vulnerability to scams and frauds. When such vulnerability becomes apparent, the prevalence of malicious people taking advantage of the situation also increases.
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