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How Scammers Are Using WhatsApp, Facebook and Skype To Entrap Singles

Scamming is big business in Nigeria, even for college graduates like Chris who told FOX4 Problem Solvers that legit jobs are almost impossible to find unless your family is connected. Chris said he finally stopped scamming after he learned that one of his victims, a year-old Kentucky woman, had cancer. He said that experience awakened his conscience and got him out of the business. Now he works for a California company called Social Catfish, which for a monthly fee, helps people determine whether they are being scammed. She said she knows the tricks scammers pull because she was once a victim herself. Woman in Amish buggy dies in Johnson County, Missouri crash. She said Matthew convinced her to leave the dating site and continue to chat on Facebook Messenger. That was her first of many mistakes. She said Matthew was a highly trained, well-rehearsed scammer who even called her regularly on the phone.

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Brockville Police received a report yesterday from a person who engaged in conversation with a person they had met through a dating website. After exchanging a few emails the complainant went back to the dating website and found the person she was chatting with had removed their profile which the complainant found suspicious. The scammer continued the conversations saying they ran a home based business. When the complainant suggested the 2 meet in a public place the scammer always refused saying they had a business meeting. Eventually the scammer told the complainant they had to go away on a business trip to Ghana and would be in contact after arrival. After the arrival in Ghana, suddenly the scammer had a family emergency with their son and required money for surgery and asked the complainant to send money. The complainant, already suspicious then contact the police.

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Over the last few years, many have turned to online dating and social media in the hopes of finding their special someone and meeting new people. However, some platforms have made it easier to get scammed. In , the number of reported scams doubled over the first two months of the year. The BBB revealed that victims were befriended and tricked into relationships with people whose main priority was to acquire money and obtain credit card information. With the popularity surrounding online dating, fraudsters can create backstories and identities that can trick users into falling for someone who is not real.

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‘Ruthless’ criminals using romance scams to con £8,000 from victims on average

Although these scams seem on the surface to be unsophisticated and unlikely to succeed, their prominence and persistence show that they continue to snare victims. Examining examples of these scams detected in email and social media highlights the differences in these platforms for scammers and cybercriminals. Unsolicited email has long been a medium for scammers to attempt to reach their victims. The example below is typical of these messages, which often feature even more salacious content, trading brevity for explicitness.

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