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This is me, but apparently there's loads of other me out there, but these are all fake accounts trying to scam you. So today I wanted to address how you can avoid getting scammed in 2025 because with the cost of living crisis and the job crisis, scammers are getting more creative than ever. Number one, I look at the username. Take a celebrity for example or a really famous influencer. If they have a second account, would it really be spell-in-correlation? Would it have an extra one somewhere? Unless that creator specifically says that they have a backup account, then it's safe to assume it's not their account. Number two is check how long this account has been active. Scammers usually only use a certain window of time to work out if it's going to be worthwhile for them. An actual content creator's page, you'll see posts from ages ago, but some of these posts will be posted in the last 24 hours. Number three is think about intention. If they're asking you for money, asking you what you do for work, these are all red flags and you should never give out personal details to anyone online. Number four is look at the way they speak. For example, I got these two scam emails, um, pretending to be brand-new. Both of them are even address to me. If the message or email seems like it's been copied and pasted millions of times, chances are it's fake. And number five, if something seems too good to be true, then it likely is, and this applies to anything in life. So those are five things to watch out for when you see fake accounts, fake emails.