microrobert
01-22-2013, 04:28 PM
As Internet users adapt to old tricks, scammers find new tactics to exploit
Greetings to you, my friend.
I know this will come as a surprise to you, because you do not know me. My name is Abdul Al-Shallah and I am the son of a deposed government official in Nigeria.
Sound familiar? It’s a boilerplate opening for one of the most common scams in the known world — the Nigerian scam, also known as the “419 scam” or the advance fee scheme.
The elements are always the same: someone (preferably royalty or some sort of official) has come into a lot of money, but needs another person outside of the country to use their money for a bribe (or to pay legal fees among other means) to spring the money free.
The result is also predictable, with a wire transfer to a con artist’s account and a fake check that confirms a scam has taken place.
Four New Ways Online Scammers Are Taking Your Money (http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/01/20/four-new-ways-online-scammers-are-taking-your-money/)
Greetings to you, my friend.
I know this will come as a surprise to you, because you do not know me. My name is Abdul Al-Shallah and I am the son of a deposed government official in Nigeria.
Sound familiar? It’s a boilerplate opening for one of the most common scams in the known world — the Nigerian scam, also known as the “419 scam” or the advance fee scheme.
The elements are always the same: someone (preferably royalty or some sort of official) has come into a lot of money, but needs another person outside of the country to use their money for a bribe (or to pay legal fees among other means) to spring the money free.
The result is also predictable, with a wire transfer to a con artist’s account and a fake check that confirms a scam has taken place.
Four New Ways Online Scammers Are Taking Your Money (http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/01/20/four-new-ways-online-scammers-are-taking-your-money/)