Sickening Ways Crooks Are Trying To Get Rich Right Now
The scammers are a virus of their own.
![Sickening Ways Crooks Are Trying To Get Rich Right Now](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/0/9/734109_320x180.jpg?v=4)
PSA: Be safe, stay home, and stay informed. -Ed
Look for the helpers, Mr. Rogers famously said. This isn't about helpers. This is about people who react to a once-in-a-lifetime crisis with dollar signs in their eyes, and the schemes they come up with.
For example ...
![Scammers are stealing stimulus checKS on a massive scale. Lots of personal information from past data breaches is floating online, and criminals are u](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/5/734365.jpg?v=2)
![Face mask sellers are taking over Twitter accounts. A ton of accounts got hacked and started to spam ads for Masks 2 U, a website that sells face ma](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/0/3/734103.jpg?v=2)
![Two lawyers in Montreal are trying to trademark COVID-19. They also put in a request to trademark COVID-19 prevention and care, just for good meas](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/3/734363.jpg?v=2)
![Wellness influencers are hawking things like diet pills and vitamin gummies as COVID treatments. Sure, good nutrition helps your body fight infections](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/0/2/734102.jpg?v=2)
![over 700 fake Netflix homepages went up between April 6 and 12. They range from amateurish to super-convincing (most are at the lower end of the scale](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/0/0/734100.jpg?v=2)
![In the UK, There's a driveway disinfection scam. It works like this: A gang shows up unannounced to disinfect your driveway, then they charge you a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/9/7/734097.jpg?v=2)
![Fashion Nova was desperate for people's stimulus check money. They sent a mass text saying When That Stimulus Deposit Hits... Save Up To 80% OFF SITE](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/9/0/735590.jpg?v=1)
![A big healthcare workers' union almost bought 39 million imaginary N-95 masks. Soon after the Service Employees International Union's United Healthcar](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/1/2/735412.jpg?v=1)
![In India, someone tried to sell the world's tallest statue. An online scammer was selling the 597-foot-high Statue of Unity for $4 billion, saying the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/9/8/734098.jpg?v=2)
![Amazon listings are getting hijacked and replaced with face masks. It's called review hijacking, and it consists of swapping a new photo and descripti](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/9/5/734095.jpg?v=2)
![Somebody is trying to rip off people with fake contact tracing. They're sending messages warning people they've been in contact with someone infected](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/9/4/734094.jpg?v=2)
![You can hire a coronavirus healer'' on the freelance marketplacel Fiverr. One healer's headline reads I will give you prophetic blessing and healer](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/9/6/734096.jpg?v=2)