Cybersecurity expert Hernan Popper says most scams have one thing in common: to convince you to give up your information through any means necessary.

“It started maybe a hundred years ago with letters in the mail, and it continued with the evolution of technology through different methods,” said Hernan Popper, the founder and principal consultant of Popp3r — a business working with organizations to help them minimize risks.

Popper says those most at risk are people who haven’t been exposed to technology, like elderly people and young children.

“It’s very easy to deploy these scams,” he said. “When you’re doing e-transfer scams or any similar scams, you can do it over e-mail. You can do it over SMS … any kind of communication method.

“All these attacks are automated and they are being done at a massive scale.”

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