Scam-free Christmas

This advisory highlights eight prevalent holiday-season e-commerce scams—phishing via SMS/social media, look‑alike online stores, gift card fraud, fake social accounts, travel scams, survey/poll pop‑ups, classifieds bait listings, and seasonal loan fraud—explaining perpetrators’ tactics, potential impacts, and select examples (e.g., Europol’s eComm2022 operation and the BBC‑reported "Holiday swindlers"). It recommends proactive defenses including digital risk protection, domain and brand monitoring, social media verification, rapid reporting/takedowns with authorities, and robust processes to handle user reports across all threat vectors.