Heartless scammers are cashing into the tragic earthquakes in Syria and Turkey by tricking people into donating to fake appeals.
Generous families across the UK are looking to support the international aid efforts to help families in the wake of the devastating earthquakes earlier this month, but fraudsters are channelling donations away from real charities, and into their own PayPal accounts and cryptocurrency wallets.
Online safety expert Get Safe Online told This Is Money that it is braced for a flood of fraudulent emails, social media posts and websites pleading for donations for relief efforts. And the BBC has reported that scammers are using pictures which are not from Turkey or Syria and sometimes even generated using Artificial Intelligence software, after Twitter users were quick to spot that this firefighter used in an call for donations has six digits on his right hand.
