{"id":267815,"date":"2023-12-22T05:40:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T10:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=322033"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:21:12","slug":"money-for-giving-likes-the-new-method-to-scam-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/money-for-giving-likes-the-new-method-to-scam-on-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Money for giving “likes”: the new method to scam on the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The paths of digital scams are inscrutable<\/strong> on the Internet. So much so that, currently, it is even possible to be scammed by falling into a fraudulent business where you supposedly get paid for giving a “like” or a “thumbs up”<\/strong> on platforms like YouTube. And, when it comes to easy money, you always have to be on high alert<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scammers who use this method are even capable of giving a small and testimonial income<\/strong> to the victim to gain their trust and then take a much larger sum than the one received, taking advantage of the fact that the person lowers their guard<\/strong>, trusts the scammer and gives them the money they ask for to process their “liking” job.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A scam that starts with a few “likes”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As explained by Bitdefender Labs<\/a>, this scam works in a simple way: they contact you to offer you a small incentive for liking a specific video<\/strong> and they give you the money for it (3, 5 dollars, a small sum) to trust the person on the other side of the network. Later, they will invite you to access a platform<\/strong> with a high payment barrier that, after delivering the money, shows that there is no business behind it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to reports from the victims, the scammed money can range from $20 to $1,100<\/strong>, depending on the person carrying out the scam and the payment barrier imposed on the victim. Thus, what was supposed to be an “easy job”<\/strong> to earn some extra income turns into a nightmare<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No industry is spared<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The shadow of fraud, unfortunately, is not an exclusive scourge of a single sector<\/strong>: practically any profession and any person can engage in scams if they have the necessary knowledge and sufficient moral justifications to have no regrets<\/strong>. In fact, in recent days, the recently released video game, The Day Before, has been involved in a grotesque situation<\/a> in that industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many times it is difficult to blindly trust projects like this because it can be difficult to know the true intentions<\/strong> of the people behind a job, and that is why it is important to watch out for any signs that raise alarms<\/strong>. In the case of The Day Before, for example, there were already many doubts raised by the lack of truthfulness of the previously shared trailers and gameplay<\/strong>, something that made many users take a step back and avoid supporting the game without having seen it finished first<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The paths of digital scams are inscrutable on the Internet. So much so that, currently, it is even possible to be scammed by falling into a fraudulent business where you supposedly get paid for giving a “like” or a “thumbs up” on platforms like YouTube. And, when it comes to easy money, you always have … Continue reading “Money for giving “likes”: the new method to scam on the internet”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9285,"featured_media":267817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[6016],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-267815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-estafa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315604,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267815\/revisions\/315604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267815"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=267815"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=267815"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=267815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}