Contact tracer vs scammers.

[Alucard1]

After three months of staying at home because of the pandemic, America is now moving, they have now the contact tracers from Department of Health who will try to track everyone who has been exposed from COVID-19, they are really important to avoid the risk of spreading the virus but with this case, the scammers are attacking again, they pretend to be a real contact tracer, they will try to steal some of your important information, identity especially your money. Thankfully the Federal Trade Commission has a way of identifying scammers and real contact tracers.

A contact tracer may discuss things happen on you which can be related to the pandemic or if you get exposed to someone who became positive from the virus. A real contact tracer may contact you from calling, visiting your home, and email.
Here are things that they may ask you about:

1. your name and address
2. health information
3. the names of places and people you have visited

Scammers will try to ask some more:

1. Don’t pay a contact tracer.
Anyone who says you need to pay is a scammer, plain and simple.
2. Don’t give your Social Security number or financial information.
There’s no reason for a legit contact tracer to need your Social Security number, bank account, or credit card number.
3. Don’t share your immigration status.
Legit contact tracers don’t need and won’t ask for this information.
4. Don’t click on links or download anything sent from a contact tracer.
Real tracers will only send you texts or emails that say they’ll be calling you not ask you to click or download anything.

Because of this pandemic virus, scammers find many ways to steal personal's identity and even money. Let us all be vigilant and always assess the situation, for more details click this link.

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[OcTradism]

Scammers tend to go first to PM everyone to setup their traps and find naive people and scam them. They especially like message platforms such as Telegram, Discord where they can fake username and lazy, naive, unknowledgeable people will not notice on identities of real developers.

Next steps are: ask for private key, mnemonic seeds, go first by sending some amount of BTC, etc. Even you don't know how to check identities of real developers, if they ask you one or all things in second steps, they are scammers. When you have connection with such case, it is a good chance for you to look back at their profiles and find difference between them and real developers. What for? To avoid future scammers.

[actmyname]

Simple advice is just to think about the things they're asking for, and why they would possibly do so. Same thing applies to all scammers: the methods may differ but the structure is always the same, and if you can find that, then you're almost never going to run into a scam.

Can't be scammed if you don't pay someone or leak your important details.

[jademaxsuy]

Common sense, this is all one need in order not to get scam with those fake contact tracers or scammers.

Here in our place there are many contact tracers but I can senses that they are legit because they are always in a group with a police officer to secure the contact tracers and the team. As we all know that there are really hard headed individuals which will decline to get a swab test especially if they are being reported to have a contact to a positive person. This will allow the police officers to make sure the safety of the team.

However, scammers are everywhere. I often heard a modus Operandi like selling gas stove regulator, a device is a safety feature device to ensure the safety of the users from the risk and hazards of the LPG tank and the system. The scammers introduces their selves as Fire officers from the Fire Department raising awareness on fire protection. Most people do not know that a gas stove has already using a regulator to avoid or stop the leak if there is any form of free flowing of LPG in the tank. Yet, they still encourage to buy to add safety features. It is just easy as to eat a pie to scam by encouraging the its consumers to buy the device  which is not really needed.

Anyway, since we are in the pandemic of course we have to be careful and aware the things that happening around us. This is the only way to prevent getting into scam especially if there is an offer which is good to be true. High chances that it will be scam.

[DdmrDdmr]

Unfortunately, it’s yet another variation of telephone scams, raised upon the wave of the latest new that may have some feasible background to give some credibility to their arguments. The possible outcomes are multiple, ranging from impersonation, demanding a payment, or installing all sorts of malware and remote control software on your devices.

A classical one I know of is that of scammers calling you allegedly from Microsoft, claiming that they have detected that you have got a virus on your computer, and that they’ll kindly assist you in removing it, prior prompting you to download some kind of software … we know how well that’s going to go (the software you install will give them remote control, leading to document theft, randonware, you name it).

[Jet Cash]

The simple asvice is to avoid all contact tracing apps, and paper work.If you do this then you won't get scammed.

It is a flawed concept anyway - why would one want to restrict the spread of immunity? Also there is no reliable test for infection, and results are often too late to be useful. More importantly, why would you want to expose yourself to possible government restrictions, when you have built an immunity, and you have a strong immune system as a result of avoiding modern " health care".

[Coyster]

There are questions a covid-19 contact tracer from the health sector would not ask you, any question not pertaining to your health or individuals you've come in contact with in a certain period of time to aid tracing is unnecessary and if it progresses to personal information, payments, bank account details etc, then you've been contacted by scammers, not tracers.

[fortunecrypto]

1. your name and address
2. health information
3. the names of places and people you have visited[/b]

We do have a contact tracer herein our country but they are not the kind that will send emails or call you they usually visit people while wearing protective gear, and if someone calls me about my information I will not be obliged because I hate giving my information to emails and phone calls I prefer filling up information and I must know who I am dealing with

[Assface16678]

Today with this pandemic outbreak for sure there are a lot of people will try to scam and pretending they are part of this government some of the people want to make more aware of they are already have this COVID 19 and one of the best things to be more aware of this is the swab test or rapid test. If there is a case in your place of this covid there is sure isolation and quarantine on your area by this they are now trying to report and reach who are the persons with this infected victim or patient so they made now contact trading.

For sure there is no tracer that will ask for their personal information and bank accounts which is too suspicious like what are your sss according to OP and you need to download some link or just fill up some form came from third party issues. So be an aware good job to spread awareness too.

[smyslov]

A contract tracer is commissioned by the country's health ministry or agency no way I will deal by a simple email of phone call unless they are coming from the official telecommunication coming  from the health ministry or department, the authorities will announce the official numbers and emails of commissioned contact tracers if it's coming from different source I will not deal with them.