Extortion scams continue to victimize a lot of regular Web users around the world. A few hours into the new year, significant numbers of Big Scammers fraud action alerts about the most prevalent online extortion schemes in 2016 began to be sent out to subscribers of this online community. This is after many users posted scam complaints against widespread types of online extortion tactics despite the festivities and parties to welcome 2017.
It seems many scammers and criminal syndicates that operate extortion scams on the Internet don't take a break during the holiday season. They continue this year with their online dating scams and fake tech support schemes, which are the most prevalent online extortion crimes last year. Aside from regular Big Scammers fraud action alerts against similar Web crimes, the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) began to send out reminders and alerts to American users after noticing a huge spike in the number of victims who fell for similar Internet extortion crimes across the USA last year. The UK's national online crime reporting center, ActionFraud, also started to do this in 2016 when they began to receive a lot of reports from many victims across the country about online dating scams and fake tech support schemes.
What Are Big Scammers Fraud Action Alerts?
Whenever a user posts a scam complaint or updates a previous posting with new information or a comment in BigScammers.Com, this Web platform automatically sends out an email to all subscribers who opted to receive Big Scammers fraud action alerts. This means you'll be able to learn about the newest online scams and Web crimes out there today through the instant notifications and real time alerts that are sent out by this online community.
With the help of instant Big Scammers fraud action alerts, you'll be able to devise more suitable ways to quickly spot and safely avoid the most widespread extortion scams on the Internet today. You'll know the exact tactics that are used by scammers and criminal syndicates for their online extortion scams, along with their target user groups, Web platforms, social networks, devices and distribution outlets on the Internet for their illegal activities, malicious applications and cyber traps.
Top Online Extortion Scams Today
Online dating fraud is still the most widespread extortion scheme on the Internet this 2017. This is where scammers pose as legitimate users of dating sites and apps to trick users into engaging in intimate conversations with them. According to the latest Big Scammers fraud action alerts about this online extortion scam, most fraudsters still target middle-aged married men and women who regularly hang out in the most popular Web dating platforms across the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK, a few Asian countries and other EU territories.
Scammers do this to record their voice chats and take screenshots of their chat logs. They then threaten to directly send the recordings and screenshots to their victim's spouse, children, friends, employers and colleagues. That's unless their victims comply with their demands for huge sums of money. Some victims claimed in their Big Scammers fraud action complaints that these fraudsters still went ahead and sent the recordings and screenshots of their intimate conversations to their spouses and employers even after they complied with the demands of those scammers.
Tech support fraud is still a big problem in the USA, the UK, Australia, Germany, France and Japan among several other countries. This is shown by the number of Big Scammers fraud action complaints that were posted this 2017 against this extortion scheme. This is where malicious applications are distributed by criminal syndicates to compromise the devices of their target users.
When their malicious code penetrates a user's device, pop-up messages are displayed in full view. The OS (operating system) and the default Web browser of compromised devices are also sometimes frozen by this malware, according to many users who posted Big Scammers fraud action complaints against this online scam.
Laced with fake urgency claims and scare rhetoric, many users are tricked into calling the toll free number that's falsely advertised in the pop-ups as the official tech support numbers of household tech brands like Apple, Microsoft and others. Scammers then pose as tech support agents and deceive users into paying for a fake service. What they do is simply remove the malicious code from the user's device, according to the latest Big Scammers fraud action alerts about this online extortion scheme.