Beware of Online Friends and Mates, Nigeria Scam

By Robert Moekoe

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If you have ever heard of Nigeria Scam or romantic scam before, you know what I mean. Online (and online only) friends, acquaintances, or even lovers should be treated with prudence. Unless you have proven them to be offline-trustworthy, always put precaution, make sure you have a good spyware privacy, and never let go off sensitive information to them. Among them could just be a Nigeria Scam or romantic scam.

So, what harm could romantic or Nigeria scam do to us? Some of the modus operandi online scams (Nigeria scam) are pulling nowadays are listed here:

1. An heir of a very wealthy but overthrown leader of a distant country, needing help to get the family’s money in a bank account out of the country. The help the Nigeria scam says it needs is an amount of money to make the bank account transfer possible. A victim who buys the story usually transfers the money and lost it to the Nigeria scam.
2. Someone who you’ve known of for only a short period of time via an online social networking or an online matchmaker devours special attention to you, usually in the name of love and all about love. In the mean time he / she might or might not offer you something such as money, present, or anything that might be of bonding value to you. In the end, the scenario is that you have to pay for a gift sent via mail as a customs official somewhere tells you that some money is needed to let the cargo in to your country.

There might be more scenarios played by con artists in  an online or Nigeria scam waiting for us to be their preys. So just beware and keep our judgment straight.

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