Frank M. Ahearn Privacy Expert
Social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn are the number one places scammers locate victims. It is a ready-made template, a bio about you, and a list of friends and followers. Nothing more is needed to destroy your life. If you become a victim of a Facebook or Instagram scam, it is a challenge because every person connected to you is a potential exposure point.
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Sometimes people lose faith in life and turn to alternative methods for help. Often remedies are available online, and the wrong people are behind websites, like voodoo doctors claiming they can cast a spell and help you with love, a job, and riches. Besides being fake, they take advantage and demand more and more money. When you recognize it is a scam, the steak in the heart comes; if you do not pay, they will expose you by sharing your content with the love interest, job, or family.
Dating and hookup apps like Ashley Madison, Hinge, and AFF are popular victimization points. No one ever checks whether the person they are chatting with is real. Often, text communications are fodder when married. With others, compromising content is extracted.
Fake ads go online, and when men solicit, they do so from their real mobile numbers, which is an easy way to identify them. Sometimes it is a life-threatening physical threat to come to your home or expose you to a spouse. It freaks people out when a scammer reveals they know where they live or their spouse's name. Typically, the home visit is bogus.
There are many websites offering college papers and sitting in for online tests. Once this happens, the scammer has plenty of information to get you booted from the school. You give the wrong person so much power when you share such a secret. They have the email chain, a copy of your payment, and know everything about you.
The wrong relationship will jam you up—the ones of understanding where you help someone financially. You prop them up, feed them money, pay bills, help with the rent, etc. Eventually, they no longer serve a purpose, and you want to end the affair. You are pulling the financial rug from underneath them. Something they expected, and now they want a payoff.
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