Most youths, especially students in colleges and university make their part-time hustle through the internet. Most jobs entail academic writing, article writing, affiliate marketing and completing surveys. Getting a genuine website that offers the above-mentioned jobs has never been easy as the internet is full of scammers. Scammers aim at making you toil and end up going unpaid or get your sensitive personal information and use it for wrong purposes. Some scammers are capable of stealing from you through the dark web. Here are the tips you can use to protect yourself from them: 

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Do not give a chance to someone to remotely access your computer through a cold call.

Never attempt to give submit your personal account or security details through untrusted links on the internet. Individuals from genuine institutions such as banks or any other organization will never ask for them.

Never pay for registration on any platform. Genuine sites will only request you to follow their genuine procedures such as answering tests and writing a provided essays for to measure your qualifications.

Never depend on caller ID as shams can mimic them and make it look like they are calling from a trusted number of the company you are interested in.

Keep of the cold calls claiming to be from financial institutions such as banks or other organizations that you trust. In case it may raise your concern, just make a call to an independently verified number of that particular institution.

Never trust any Wi-Fi. Someone can easily read your personal details if you’re using a common Wi-Fi that is not well protected. To make it worse, they can transfer viruses to your personal computer.

Don’t visit websites that are not protected and yet you don’t trust it. A protected website has either a padlock that is locked or it starts with https, the letter ‘S’ shows that the website is secure.

For my brothers and sister who like surfing, I hope you have learned something new. Scams are all over but real jobs are also available. Just remember to be keen on whatever you are dealing with.