A lot of criminal syndicates and solo fraudsters go through
the rigorous process of observing relevant trends and closely monitoring the
behavior of certain user groups on the Internet. They constantly do this to
create new Web scams and Internet schemes that can allow them to steal as much
money or more sensitive personal details from as many users as possible with
the least amount of resource cost on their part. That's why girlfriend scams
are now being used to promote cash checking fraud, while fake tech support
schemes are providing more opportunities for a lot of scammers to steal credit
cards and place spyware applications in the unprotected devices of their target
victims.
Fake tech support schemes require more technical malware
expertise to pull off, unlike girlfriend scams. For example, when scammers who
pose as official tech support agents of household brands like Microsoft and
Apple manage to trick unsuspecting users into giving them remote access - Many
of them secretly place spyware programs in the victim's device. These malicious
applications clandestinely log all user inputs in the device, which is then
transmitted to Web server networks that are also controlled by the scammers.
On the other hand, girlfriend scams require more social manipulation expertise than fake tech support schemes. As another example,
scammers who pose as legitimate users in their target dating sites and apps
need to entice their intended victims to respond to their messages. What they
normally do is create fake profiles that can grab the attention of their target
victims. They then need to craft provocative messages that can compel
unsuspecting users to respond and establish some sort of relationship with
them.
How is Check Cashing Fraud Promoted Through Girlfriend Scams?
What scammers usually do is entice their target victims to
engage in intimate conversations with them. A lot of unsuspecting users fall
for this tactic, most of whom are married men in their senior years. Once their
potential victims respond to their messages, they try to steadily build trust
until they feel that they can then deceive victims of their girlfriend scams
into agreeing to cash out checks for them.
They make up all types of sob stories to make their claims
more believable. Some have been known to claim that the checks were sent as
payment for a service that they completed online. They say that the banks in
their countries can't process international checks, and the senders aren't
interested in sending them the money that they owe them through other methods.
These scammers generally try to exploit the kindness of their victims, which is
one of the main reasons why many of them target married men in their senior
years for their girlfriend scams.
Some fraudsters even try to coax their victims to agree in
this arrangement by offering a generous cut from the value of the check. What
they don't tell victims of their girlfriend scams is that these are fake
checks, and their victims will just end up owing their banks once the checks go
through their bank's clearance and verification processes. This usually takes a
few days or so, which is why many scammers manage to run away with the cash and
disappear long before they're exposed. That's also because many banks in the
target countries of these scammers immediately hand over the cash to their
depositors even before running the checks through their verification systems.
There are many other ways that scammers and criminal
syndicates have been known to do to lure more victims of their girlfriend scams
into their other fraudulent Web schemes. By signing up at BigScammers.Com,
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