How to Spot and Avoid Scams: Website and Email Scams

Once upon a time, the legitimacy of a website could be clear simply from the quality of the design. Nowadays, however, it doesn’t take much to duplicate a website so it looks nearly identical. Learning to design a website doesn’t always take fluency in a coding language, simply being clever enough to know what people notice and what they ignore. Website scams are some of the easiest ways to lose large amounts of money, and it’s often one of the hardest to identify now. Luckily, Rebecca Bredin from Bredin Digital is here to share every trick she has learnt in this new webinar series, How to Spot and Avoid Scams.

In part two of this three-part series, “How to Spot and Avoid Scams” we will look at how scammers try to trick unsuspecting victims into thinking that their websites and emails are legitimate businesses. You’ll learn the telltale signs of a fake website or email, how to check if a link is legitimate before clicking it, and ways that you can check if a website is who they say they are.

Webinars in the How To Spot and Avoid Scams Series:

• Week 1: Phone and Text Scams
• Week 2: Website and Email Scams
• Week 3: Social Media Scams

About Rebecca Bredin and Bredin Digital

Bredin Digital is a video production company based out of Brockville, Ontario. It was founded in 2020 by Rebecca Bredin, with the original goal of helping small businesses learn how to develop their online presence further through social media. As Bredin Digital continued to develop, it focused more on creating professional-level video content for local businesses that can be used on social media platforms.

Rebecca Bredin is the founder of Bredin Digital. She has been working in digital marketing and social media for over 10 years and has been using most of the major social media platforms used now since their early founding stages. Rebecca has also previously worked as a digital analyst in the trust and safety department for a major social media platform, so she has developed a keen eye for identifying bad actors and scammers on the internet. After returning to Brockville in 2019, Rebecca began working with small business owners of all generations and saw a need for more digital literacy education opportunities. Through these webinars, Rebecca hopes she can help people save themselves from scammers and feel safer online.

You can learn more about Bredin Digital on the about page.