--- title: Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, phishing texts — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, phishing texts», a lesson of the money course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A scam is a trick to steal your money, your account or your private details, and scammers dress it up as a gift, a prize --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/) [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/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, p… # Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, phishing texts Lesson 19 of the money course of Mova's primary school: 18 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/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/0/) — A scam is a trick to steal your money, your account or your private details, and scammers dress it up as a gift, a prize, a warning or a bargain. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/1/) — Just type your login on this site!" is a classic: the V-Bucks are worth £0, but if you type your username and password, the scammer takes your account with £60 of skins on it; tricking people into giving private details is called phishing. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/2/) — Warning signs: something free or far too cheap (a £100 pair of trainers for £20), a rush ("Your account will be closed! - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/3/) — Click now!"), a small payment to get your card details (a £1.45 "parcel fee"), spelling mistakes and odd addresses like "supp0rt@g4mes-help.biz", and anyone asking for a password or a gift card code. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/4/) — Real companies and banks never ask for your password, never ask for gift card codes and never tell you to move money to a "safe account"; a link can be fake even when it comes from a friend, because their account may have been hacked. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/5/) — The safe answer is always the same: do not click, do not type, do not pay; block, report and tell a grown-up, and go to the real website or phone number yourself. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/6/) — A scam is a trick to steal money, an account or private details. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/7/) — Phishing means tricking someone into giving private details like a login or card number; scam texts are sometimes called smishing. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/8/) — Real games never give free currency on strange websites, and nobody needs your password to give you anything. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/9/) — Scam texts often ask for a small payment so they can get your card details and then take much more. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/10/) — Fake giveaways promise expensive prizes to strangers and often ask for "postage" money or private details. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/11/) — A price far below normal for a popular new item is a warning sign of fake goods or goods that never arrive. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/12/) — Companies never ask for gift card codes; scammers like them because the money cannot be traced or returned. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/13/) — A message from a friend can be a scam if their account was hacked. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/14/) — Banks never ask you to move money to a "safe account"; hang up and phone the bank yourself on the number on the card. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/15/) — "Make lots of money fast from home" offers are almost always scams and often ask you to pay first. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/16/) — Safer websites have the right spelling, a padlock symbol by the address, and are ones you typed yourself; if in doubt, ask a grown-up. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/19-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts/17/) — Spelling mistakes, odd email addresses and rushing you are clues that a message is fake. - ← previous: [Mum's card, in-app buys and subscriptions that renew](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/18-mum-s-card-in-app-buys-and-subscriptions-that-renew/) - next →: [Wages, salary and where family money comes from](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/) - ↑ back to [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/)