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A screenshot proves nothing

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Scams

A screenshot of a payment or a message can be edited in seconds, so ‘look, I sent it’ isn’t actual proof of anything. People use fake screenshots to make you believe a payment landed or a deal’s legit when it never happened.

The move Open the real app or account and check the payment actually arrived before you send anything back.
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For teachers

Talking about this in class

This works well with students who sell things online. Ask the class: a buyer sends a screenshot showing they’ve paid, so do you post the item? Plenty will say yes, and that’s your way in. Then ask where they’d actually check, and land on the banking or selling app itself, opened by them, not through a link the buyer sends.

Second Source practises the same habit with news: go to where something came from, not to what someone shows you.

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