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Related News: Two guilty over match.com dating site scam

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The BBC published an article titled Two guilty over match.com dating site scam.

Two men have been convicted for their roles in a scam to con 12 women out of nearly £250,000 via a dating website.

Winchester Crown Court heard the fictional “James Richards” told women using match.com he needed money to release a £100m inheritance in India.

One victim handed over £174,000.

Peter Monty Emu, 28, of Portsmouth, and Adewunmi Nusi, 27, of Hermitage, Berkshire, were convicted of money laundering. Chukwuka Ugwu, 28, and Emmanuel Oko admitted the same charge.

Source: BBC

Related News: Is there a Rihanna sex tape? No, it’s a malware scam on Facebook

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Guardian published an article titled Is there a Rihanna sex tape? No, it’s a malware scam on Facebook.

There is no sex tape of Rihanna and her boyfriend doing the rounds online. You can’t see who’s been looking at your Facebook profile. And you can’t change your Facebook colour either.

This may all sound obvious, but according to antivirus firm Bitdefender, these are the most popular malware scams on the social network in 2014.

The company has published a list of the top 10 Facebook scams, with the fake app promising to tell you your Facebook views and visitors by far the most popular, accounting for 30.2% of bogus links it identified on the social network this year.

Source: The Guardian

Related News: Photographer warns of fake photo shoot targeting teen girls

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Photographer warns of fake photo shoot targeting teen girls.

An industry professional in the picture-taking business wants everyone who uses Facebook to be aware that an unknown person is trying to lure young ladies with a pitch that he will pay them to do a photo shoot.

But according to well-known Columbus photographer, John Pyle, all signs point to this being a completely fake enterprise.

Pyle has a studio on Broadway and he does a lot of shoots for high school seniors.

It recently came to his attention that someone using the name Rhonda Howard has been active on Facebook trying to convince young girls to agree to have their picture taken with promises of money.

Usually, money changes hands in the other direction.

But what concerns Pyle the most is that this person is using him as a reference, yet he’s never heard of them before.

Source: WSFA

Related News: Don’t fall for this Google Drive phishing scam

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Fox News published an article titled Don’t fall for this Google Drive phishing scam.

Usually, you can tell a legitimate Google notification from a phishing scam by reading the URL’s domain name — a message that redirects you to a non-Google address is sure to be a scam. However, a sophisticated phisher has come up with a method of stealing Google login information by using the company’s own servers against it.

Source: Fox News

Related News: Montgomery Sheriff’s name used in Internet so-called “scam”

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Montgomery Sheriff’s name used in Internet so-called “scam”.

Marshall says the scammers are calling victims, posing as the Montgomery County Sheriff.  They threaten them with an arrest warrant, unless they send money.  Marshall says the mindset is easy to recognize,  “They instill fear in this people.  I don’t want to be arrested, so I better send money.”

Corporal Kenneth Gordon is investigating the so-called scam for the Sheriff’s Office.  Gordon puts it simply, “It’s a scam, it’s been a scam since the beginning.”

Source: WSFA