From the SMH:
Facebook has been infiltrated by Nigerian scammers and other cyber criminals who use compromised accounts to con users out of cash.
Now that even non-tech savvy internet users know not to respond to, or click on links in, emails from strangers, online thieves have turned to social networks and are finding it is easier to trick people when posing as their friends.
On Friday, Sydneysider Karina Wells received a Facebook message from one of her friends, Adrian, saying he was stranded in Lagos, Nigeria, and needed her to lend him $500 for a ticket home.
Adrian used relatively good English but, after chatting further, words such as "cell" instead of "mobile phone" tipped Wells off that she was not talking to her friend but someone who had taken over his account.
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If someone from Nigeria is targeting this site, do not reply at all. There is so much corruption and they prey on women. Men don't be tricked they will scam you to.
ReplyDeleteGood advice, I don't use Facebook, but I've had email in my gmail account from names I don't know. I don't normally open them, but I can see how easy it would be to be fooled, especially when they use a first name that is familiar to you.
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