TikShock: Don’t get caught out by these 5 TikTok scams

guest · Sep 3, 2022

Are you aware of the perils of the world’s no. 1 social media? Do you know how to avoid scams and stay safe on TikTok?
By Jake Moore @Jake_MooreUK - August 30, 2022

TikTok continues to shock us all by breaking records and widening its audience, yet unfortunately with such a broad reach, scammers inevitably remain not too far behind. In only six years it has become the dominant social media platform for sharing and viewing short videos and now boasts that viewers in the UK and US are spending more time on TikTok than on YouTube.

Con artists have seen the growth in social media coming and soon began using various platforms to carry out scams of all sorts. TikTok has over 1.2 billion daily users, so the numbers are there for the taking. Furthermore, while in an app that people are scrolling minute after minute, even hour after hour, scams can easily catch people off guard and often make them lose money, their account, or even their reputation.
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TikTok scams to look out for
Get-rich-quick and crypto scams
Con artists love to lure people in with claims of huge rewards in return for little effort. Cryptocurrencies have boomed (and plummeted) in recent times so they tend to generate a lot of noise online and TikTok remains a favorite when attempting to part people from their cash.
TikTok phishing messages
A TikTok scam email or text is a message that goes out at random like a typical phishing message, but in the hope that they land in a TikToker’s inbox. They might try to offer a verified badge, more followers, or even a sponsorship
Bot accounts
TikTok is, unfortunately, still full of bot accounts that cleverly interact with users in a way that make the targeted users think they are chatting with a real person.
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TikTok scam apps
Fake accounts on TikTok sometimes promote apps that are available to download. The problem is that these apps are also in fact fake.
Fake celebrities
Some accounts may attempt to impersonate real celebrities. This is usually completed by simply duplicating the content of a celebrity’s account
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