Because you do NOT know for sure, if the individual you’re, interacting is, that photo on display in the “icon sections” there, and, desperation is why made you, easy, targets. Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
There were, increasing numbers of false sex trade scams, that hooked the female victims, the scam artist rings first went online, and, used the photos of the “hotties”, then, claimed to be the male modles, the cowboys, or the public relations in the pubs, if the victims suspected, or couldn’t pay the gaming credits, then, they’d started threatening the victims as the mobsters, and from beginning to end, the victims never saw the “hottie” personally. The criminal investigations bureau stated, that there’s the high anonymity of online relationships, that there are, tons of traps that are, hidden, that when you interact with someone online, best that you hold the “zero trust” policies in your interactions.
The police told, that the scam artists groups used the “first the lies, then the threats methods”, through the varied friendship apps to connect to the victims, selecting the victims at random, getting the victims to interact on LINE; most of these scam artist would claim that they are from a wide varieties of occupations, and sweet talked the victims into trust, then, scammed the victims for money, and claimed, that when they meet, they will then, return what they’d, charged from the victims.
and this, is what’s, happening!
As the victims made the purchases of the credits, the scam ring would then use an assortment of reasons to get the victims to purchase more, and if the victims wouldn’t comply, then, the scam rings would then start using threats, that they knew where the victims live, their phone numbers at home, at work, where they worked, go to school, stated that they will bust the victims for soliciting for sex, to threatening the victims’ lives; the police stated, that men or women, these scams used the similar means, with the end goal of, “draining the victims dry”, and, it wouldn’t be until the victims get cut off completely, or threatened, would they wake up to realize, “there’s, no prince charming or the hottie”.
A nineteen-year-old female college student met a man, “Andy” on Tinder, he claimed to work as a public relations in a bar, asked her to buy the gaming credits, then, told her that the manager of the bar he worked for threatened to chop his limbs off, and sent her the bloody photos, to threaten harm on her; she was so scared she’d purchased the gaming credits three times total, and suffered a loss of $20,000N.T., and, she couldn’t get connected with the man ever again.
The criminal investigations unit said, in making friends online, you can never be sure of the individual’s true identity, that most of the scams would get you trapped too deep, that people should NEVER disclose any personal information through the chats online; and, that there’s no “identification confirmation”, “guarantee amount” in the purchasing of the gaming credits, to NOT get tricked, and fall into the love trap, because you let love go to your heads.
And, this is still, how those, unsuspecting, desperate fishes came biting, if you’re not that desperate, then, you wouldn’t have, fallen prey to the scams, but because you are lonely, in need of love, blah, blah, blah, that made you, that much, more vulnerable than the average person, so, don’t fall for it, get a dog or a cat, I mean, they’re, WAY, WAY, W-A-Y better, at keeping us warm through the nights, and, if you get them trained well, then, they will sit, stay, roll over, play dead, for your attention, and treats too, which is, way better, than romance, besides, you can get the unconditional love from the animals, but not so much so (at least it’s no guarantee!) from a human being.
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