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Taking you further from where our previous post on this topic ends. Click here to read the Part 1 of this article.
Dangerous Scams Nigerians Engage in and How to Avoid Them:
2. Online Dating Scams
Nowadays, the Internet assumes a significant part in our daily activities, with modern social applications like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram which we access each day.
Many today seek to find love online and for some people, it’s unavoidable for them to utilize some of these applications to search for adoration and harmony. These fun and love seekers have become easy prey to male scammers frequently situated in West Africa, while the female con artists are generally from the Eastern Europe States.
In most cases where a fraudster makes a fake profile to transform a romance into money, the con artist looks in no way like the photos they’ve used to draw-in a potential victim. Therefore to postpone this uncover, they may constantly reschedule calls or video talks, to prevent their victim from seeing or hearing something that doesn’t coordinate with their false façade.
While you might find a profile picture attractive, diving in fast and hard is almost always a bad idea. Scammers exploit your emotions and love is the easiest emotion to take advantage of. They might even send you gifts and once they have you hooked on their sweet words it’s much easier to ask, even demand, you to send them money.
Additionally, whenever you propose to meet up, they always have a reasonable excuse for not meeting you. It could be an emergency came up, they will already be out of town, or they just don’t have the money.
They could also ask if they can use your bank account to transfer funds internationally.
Regardless of whether you have genuine affections for somebody you’ve been visiting with on the web, it’s never a smart thought to give any web associate admittance to your financial details or balances.
They may guarantee you that you’ll will keep a cut, reveal to you that their investors simply need a U.S. bank account to get a promising new pursuit dispatched. Be cautious and ensure you are shielding yourself from these fake cupids.
3. Make Money Fast Scams
Some cybercriminals in Nigeria will draw you into trusting you can realize cash simply and quick on the web. They’ll guarantee you non-existent positions, including plans and strategies for getting rich rapidly.
It is a very basic and viable methodology, since it tends to a fundamental requirement for cash, particularly when somebody is in a troublesome monetary or unemployment circumstance.
They utilize different occupation types, for example, work-at-home tricks, usually the potential victim is attracted into parting with his/her individual data and monetary information with the guarantee of a generously compensated occupation that will get heaps of cash in an extremely brief timeframe.
4. Fake SMS Instant Messages
These phishing text messages can appear in a variety of formats, but oftentimes the intent is the same: to gain access to your personal or financial information. Scammers who use smishing may pretend to be tech support representatives, long-lost friends, financial institutions or government workers.
Be cautious about these SMS you get. Don’t bother responding to a suspicious text, avoid downloading apps via text messages, if possible and don’t click any links or call any numbers provided in the text if you don’t know the sender.
Once criminals get your personal or financial information, they can commit identity-theft related crimes like applying for multiple lines of credit in your name.
To be continued…..
