How's Your Epresence? With Mark Galvin

WARNING!  Holiday Scam Alert! During the Holidays over 1/3 of Christmas presents and gifts are bought on a Phone! So it's not surprising that more and more crooks are getting on social media accounts to steal your money. Here's their method: A familiar commerce account on Instagram randomly tags you as the winner of a giveaway Then they'll send you a direct message asking for Phone number Address The handle to your virtual cache app period this can be Venmo or literally your cash app. Once they have this information, they'll try to pull money from your Cash or Venmo app. How to avoid this? Look at the handle of the account that's telling you that you won something. Does it look legit? Maybe it looks a little off…? Verify that it's the correct handle by going to the website of the account it represents. On the website you can find the handle for social media that they use. Use those handles to verify it's the correct one.   CBS new York’s Charlie Cooper contributed to this story https://newyork.cbslocal.com