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When you look at products from different vendors to buy the best one for you.
What is comparison shopping?
Something you can do to prevent someone, even yourself from opening a new credit card.
What is freezing your credit?
When someone uses your personal information to open a credit card account in your name without you knowing?
What is identity theft?
A person who purchases goods and services for personal use.
What is a consumer?
What is http?
This, along with requesting personal information are the two red flags when it comes to scams.
What is an urgent need of money?
When design features trick users into doing something that benefits the business
What is a dark pattern?
A person who has the ability to convince someone to buy a product or service by promoting it on social media
A type of scam in which payments from lower-level, recruited employees are pushed to higher-level employees
What is a pyramid scheme?
The fraudster tricked you into revealing personal information through email, texts, or other electronic communication
What is Phishing?
A scam in which a fraudster will boost the price of a stock based on false or misleading information and then sell the stock
What is a Pump and Dump scam?
Dark pattern where a website automatically signs you up for a paid subscription when you create an account but there is no easy way to cancel it
What is a Roach Motel?
By saying that you don’t want to share your email, they are framing in such a way that you would feel bad and emotional about making that decision
What is confirm-shaming?
This would be the Riddler’s (Batman villain) favorite dark pattern. This type of dark pattern is purposefully crafted to confuse, by using different language artifacts, such as intricate wording and double negatives in order to nudge the user into taking the desired action.
What is trick questions?
A type of dark pattern where websites or apps trick users into sharing more personal data than they intend, named after FacebookLinks to an external site.'s practices, using confusing settings, misleading language, or hidden defaults to encourage oversharing.
What is privacy Zuckering?