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Scammers create fake donations on TikTok and Twitter for Turkey-Syria earthquake victims

By France24
27 February 2023   |   10:46 am
TikTok lives, digital gifts, PayPal and cryptocurrency deposits are some of the main methods used by scammers that claim to raise money for survivors of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. In this edition of Truth and Fake, we go through the donation scams to look out for.

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