Related to Valentines Day or Valentine's Day is always celebrated every February 14, security experts from Kaspersky Lab presents some of the dangers of looking for love in cyberspace. One is the "spam Nigeria". Spam that many in the dating search sites is reported to have succeeded in making his victims losing thousands of dollars.
For the record, spam Nigeria has been widely circulated in the first year, but still has not lost its popularity.
As stated in its official statement, "girl" who allegedly wrote an e-mail of this type usually describes himself living in a remote country on the African continent.
Shortly after meeting, the girl often told that he is the owner of inheritance money of one million U.S. dollars and is willing to share his wealth with the victim.
However, to get the girl and the money, the victim was asked to pay some legal services that usually amount to thousands of dollars.
This tactic was actually very difficult to execute. The fraudsters should provide a lot of time and effort to draw attention because the victim usually does not want to pay that much money. However, if the fraudster is successful, he will get tremendous results.
Other scams look more modest. Usually, to find a mate through the Internet, people are using dating sites search. Well, this time in the form of fraud, the crooks ask the victim to transfer some money to be able to join a particular dating site search.
Usually the victim must spend at 0.3 U.S. dollars, up to 12 U.S. dollars.
However, once the money is sent, the user still can not access the site.
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