BS Summary: This video contains 28 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Appeal to Emotion, and Framing Effect, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 27.3% saturation with 157 hits. Analysis detected 1,417 faulty-reasoning hits from 576 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 82.1% and a BS Rank of 89% (2,439 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 88.90% of the video peer group.
Alyssa Williamson was leaving a yoga class in New York when she got an email from a college classmate that looked like an invitation to an alumni event.
>> When I clicked on the link, it opened up into a Gmail login.
Once I like logged in, it just nothing worked.
>> But a few hours later, Alyssa says she started receiving texts from friends asking about an evite she'd sent out, just like the one that she'd received.
That's when she realized she'd been scammed.
>> I texted a bunch of my friends telling them not to open it, and then I changed all of my passwords.
>> Alexis Moser, who runs a preschool in Whittier, California, received a similar invitation from a friend that looked like Paperless Post.
>> So, I entered my password and it did like the multi-factor authentication, which I've done tons of times for many other websites, so I really didn't think anything of it.
>> But just like Alyssa, nothing seemed to happen until a few hours later when she was getting bombarded by undeliverable emails from people she hadn't talked to in years.
>> I realized that it was a scam, that now that email went out to everybody in my contact list.
>> And it didn't end there.
Because Alexis had entered her password and authentication, scammers were able to use that info to log into her other profiles online, including her bank account.
>> I opened up the transaction history and I noticed that there were three different transactions and they totaled like $5,500.
>> Her bank eventually put the money back in a new account and Alexis reset all her passwords.
>> It makes me really feel unsafe.
>> Online invitation companies say these two are not alone as more scammers impersonate their platforms.
>> We see a a few hundred reports a week.
>> The president of Paperless Post tells us scams are still a small number compared to the millions of real invites that go out each week.
>> Anything that's asking you to download an attachment is a red flag.
Anything that asks you to log in or register to do something basic like reply is a red flag.
>> And the CEO of Punchbowl says there are clear signs an invite is fake, like if an image won't load, logos are the wrong size, or the text isn't aligned.
And always check the website URL.
>> We strongly encourage people to hover over that URL and never ever put in information that doesn't seem to be right.
>> Okay, so when you get an invite, hover your mouse over the image in your email.
You'll see a URL link pop up on your screen like this example from Paperless Post.
If it does not say paperlesspost.com there on the bottom, do not click on it.
Evite also tells us that the single most reliable indicator that an invite is real is the sender's email address.
So, it should end in evite.com, not gmail or hotmail.
All of these sites do say that they have direct email contacts where you can reach out to them to ask if an invite is a scam.
Guys, >> Really important stuff there.
>> Great tips.
>> And the scams have gotten so good.
>> They are really hard to tell.
>> Really good information.
>> Thank you, Elizabeth.
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