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What is advanced fee fraud?

Advanced fee fraud is a common scam where fraudsters trick victims into paying upfront fees for services or goods. It can materialise in various ways, such as asking for fees to secure a loan, rent a property, and even job opportunities.

Fake organizations

Scammers create fake companies or impersonate a legitimate company when they offer their ‘service’. To appear genuine, they often create polished, professional materials, such as websites, emails, branded documents, and logos.

An upfront fee

Eventually, scammers ask you to pay an upfront fee. They usually say this is to cover expenses such as credit checks, taxes, administrative fees, and insurance, or to release an item. Once you pay, they may ask for more or disappear with your funds.

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Common types of advanced fee fraud

Job scams

You attend a job interview and get offered it. After, you’re told you need to pay a fee  – this could cover background checks or a training course they suggested. But when you pay, you realise the job never existed in the first place.

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Job Scams

You attend a job interview and get offered it. After, you’re told you need to pay a fee  – this could cover background checks or a training course they suggested. But when you pay, you realise the job never existed in the first place.

Social media competitions

Scammers ask for a fee to enter a competition on social media, or say they need a fee to claim your competition winnings – one you may not even remember. They may claim the fee is to cover a processing fee, tax, or admin charge. In reality, there’s no competition and the scammer has taken your money.

Rental property scams

Fraudsters advertise rental properties they don’t own. Cunningly, they often use in-demand areas or lower rental prices to attract interest. Once you’re interested, they ask for an upfront fee to secure the property. However, the property doesn’t exist or has already been rented out.

Personal loan scams

If you’ve applied for a loan online, scammers may contact you and offer the money you need. But before you get it, they may ask for an upfront fee. They might say it’s to cover admin fees, or they could claim it’s because you have a poor credit score. Either way, when you make the payments, you won’t receive the loan as it’s a scam.

Common types of advanced fee fraud

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About Payback

PayBack has only one mission: to protect people from frauds and scams online worldwide, whatever it takes. We help victims of online fraud retrieve what is rightfully theirs using our Investigation Reports and tailored Action plans. Although several types of scams have stood the test of time and are constantly growing in number of victims, new scams constantly pop up. Our job is to stay updated on both old and new scams to help the victims and inform our clients on how to stay safe in the future. We aim to be the number one company in the world to whom people can turn when they try to protect themselves from scams or when they need the tools to fight back after being a victim.

Very often, recovering losses from a scam doesn’t require a lawyer, court, or the legal system in general. Processes such as ADR allow one to retrieve money lost to a scam without a lengthy legal procedure. Yet to do that, one needs to be familiar with the ADR process, with the intricacies of the bodies involved, and armed with the needed evidence. This is where our Investigation Reports come in handy. The investigation report not only finds and gathers all the needed evidence in one place, but it also provides a suggested Action Plan that guides our clients through the retrieval processes (such as ADR) and shows them step-by-step how to navigate them and what exactly they should do to retrieve their losses.

Unfortunately, no. For example, some scams involve people taking cash from their victims. Such cases rarely have a successful outcome, and we make sure people who come to us with such cases know it. It is very important to us to be transparent with our clients, and we make sure to give them an honest and straightforward assessment of their case and what we believe they can expect in terms of retrieval of losses. So, if we believe you can do nothing to retrieve your money, we will tell you so immediately.

This is exactly why our “Free consultation call” practice is in place. It gives you a chance to tell us what happened and get our initial thoughts free of charge. Once we present our opinion and similar cases we’ve dealt with before, you can make a more educated decision about whether our services are for you or not. So, before making a decision, secure a free consultation, and let’s move on from there.

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