--- title: Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: If an offer sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Too-good-to-be-true offers, online sca… # Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news Lesson 314 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/0/) — If an offer sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/1/) — Free game coins, quick riches, and designer trainers for a tiny price are common tricks to steal accounts, money or card details. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/2/) — The most dangerous trick of all is a stranger offering sweets, a puppy or a treat to get a child to come with them. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/3/) — Never go anywhere with someone you do not know; run to a safe adult. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/4/) — Scammers copy real things with tiny changes: a fake celebrity account with a similar name, or a web address like «amaz0n» with a zero instead of an «o». - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/5/) — Not everything you read or watch is true. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/6/) — Headlines are written to make you click, videos and voices can be faked, satire sites invent news as jokes, and bots repeat a message to make it look popular. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/7/) — A good checker asks: is this a fact that can be checked, or someone's opinion? - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/8/) — Who else reports it? - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/9/) — What sources does it give? - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/13/) — Never go anywhere with someone you do not know, even if they offer sweets or a puppy; offers of treats are a known trick to lure children. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/14/) — Scammers make fake celebrity accounts with similar names, so check the real account and never send anything. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/15/) — Fake websites copy real ones with tiny spelling changes, so check the address letter by letter. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/16/) — Headlines are written to make you click and can be misleading, so read beyond them and check other sources. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/18/) — Satire is made-up news written as a joke, like The Onion; it can fool people who do not know it is a joke. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/19/) — A fact can be checked; an opinion is what someone thinks, and opinions should not be passed off as facts. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/20/) — Anyone can edit Wikipedia, so use it to start and check the references at the bottom. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/21/) — Some accounts are bots or fake accounts that repeat the same message to make an idea look more popular than it is. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/23/) — A girl in England found trainers for a tenth of the normal price on a strange site; her mum paid, the shoes never came and the card was used for other shopping. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/25/) — A price that is far too low on an unknown site often means a fake shop. - ← previous: [Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/) - next →: [Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)