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Mitigation

Cooling-Off Period

Wait at least 24 hours before making any large financial decision or transfer requested by someone else; urgency is the primary tool scammers use to bypass rational judgment

At a glance

Implementation cost

low

Effectiveness

high

Protects against

  • Urgency Creation
  • Sunk Cost Exploitation
  • Authorized Push Payment Fraud
  • Pig Butchering
  • Wire Transfer Redirect
  • Gift Card Extraction
  • Lottery Prize Scam