American 2.5 years to pay bills defunct Internet girlfriend
Of course, the human element is a critical element for any security system. Moreover, this factor can be so unpredictable that you just wonder - how can you be so careless? Well, it would be about running .exe in e-mail messages or there in the publication of personal data on the web. But no, there are Internet users, who still believe in winning "$ 1,000,000 of your email address", in distressed kings and princesses of all African countries there, who only dream of transferring 50% of their multimillion state for bringing this state to another country. But the case, which will be discussed in this news, is generally out of the ordinary.
According to the Chicago-based Sun-Times, the 48-year-old American “met” his Internet girlfriend for two and a half years, sincerely believing that he had a relationship, albeit virtual, with a real woman. At one point, this man went to the police because he considered that his girlfriend had been kidnapped in London for ransom. In order to confirm the identity of her friend, he provided a printout of a scanned copy of her driver's license.
As it turned out, the certificate belonged to an ordinary woman from Florida, who did not know in her sleep that her name was being used for bad purposes by intruders. And the last thing they wanted was done. For these two and a half years, the American transferred 200,000 US dollars to his “girlfriend”, and to different accounts in different countries, including Nigeria (!). In addition, he sent money to the accounts of the banks of Malaysia, England and the USA.
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In general, only now the American has learned that he is being led by the nose, and there is no such friend, and cannot be. It seems that a person is not a fool (all the same, in order to be able to send 200 thousand US dollars, you need to earn them, right?), But his gullibility is surprising ...
Via cnet.com
According to the Chicago-based Sun-Times, the 48-year-old American “met” his Internet girlfriend for two and a half years, sincerely believing that he had a relationship, albeit virtual, with a real woman. At one point, this man went to the police because he considered that his girlfriend had been kidnapped in London for ransom. In order to confirm the identity of her friend, he provided a printout of a scanned copy of her driver's license.
As it turned out, the certificate belonged to an ordinary woman from Florida, who did not know in her sleep that her name was being used for bad purposes by intruders. And the last thing they wanted was done. For these two and a half years, the American transferred 200,000 US dollars to his “girlfriend”, and to different accounts in different countries, including Nigeria (!). In addition, he sent money to the accounts of the banks of Malaysia, England and the USA.
')
In general, only now the American has learned that he is being led by the nose, and there is no such friend, and cannot be. It seems that a person is not a fool (all the same, in order to be able to send 200 thousand US dollars, you need to earn them, right?), But his gullibility is surprising ...
Via cnet.com
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/114578/
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