Identity theft is one of the most vicious types of #online #scams. #Cyber
#criminals scour through social media pages to look for people who are on
vacation. They then contact their relatives through contacts listed on these
pages requesting them for urgent monetary help. To make the #online #scam more
believable, the fraudsters would hack the e-mail account of the person who is
on leave to make it look like the request for help came really from them. While
some may call up the person to en-quire about the situation others might just
wire the money immediately to the banking account listed on the mail before
thinking about the possibility of identity theft. Either ways, this type of
online scam has been very successful at cheating thousands of internet users on
an annual basis. http://bit.ly/1PkhUIJ
