With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, people are looking for love more and more online. Unfortunately, hackers and scammers are waiting to prey on online daters, hoping to steal their heart, along with their cash. Think Before You Click That Link! The e-card may seem romantic, but it could mask something more dangerous, like malware or viruses that can do more than just spam your computer with ads, but could remotely take over your […]
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, people are looking for love more and more online. Unfortunately, hackers and scammers are waiting to prey on online daters, hoping to steal their heart, along with their cash. Money Can’t Buy You Love. Never Give or Wire Money to Someone You Met Online. Given that the whole point for catfishers is to get money out of people, alarm bells should start going off the moment any potential […]
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, people are looking for love more and more online. Unfortunately, hackers and scammers are waiting to prey on online daters, hoping to steal their heart, along with their cash. Never Turn Over Personal Information or Pictures You Wouldn’t Want Broadcast for the World to See. It’s not love if they ask for your credit card number or for you to buy a plane ticket, or request your Social […]
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, people are looking for love more and more online. Unfortunately, hackers and scammers are waiting to prey on online daters, hoping to steal their heart, along with their cash. Drama Kings and Queens. Be Suspicious of Someone Who Is Always in a Perpetual State of Emergency. Once a catfisher thinks she or he has a live one on the line, they’ll test their mark to see how far […]
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, people are looking for love more and more online. Unfortunately, hackers and scammers are waiting to prey on online daters, hoping to steal their heart, along with their cash. If They Sound like a Bad B Movie Over the Phone, or Send Emails Full of Grammatical Errors and Weird Phrases, Don’t Go Any Further. If your Romeo has an accent that does not match up to where […]
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, people are looking for love more and more online. Unfortunately, hackers and scammers are waiting to prey on online daters, hoping to steal their heart, along with their cash. Phantom Daters. Be Wary of the Romeo or Juliet Who Can Never Meet. You May Be In for a Shakespearean Tragedy. He’s really American but lives abroad right now. Her phone got shut off. His webcam won’t work. If […]
Adam Levin returned as the resident identity theft expert on “Sway in the Morning” with MTV’s Sway Calloway. This time they discussed the perils of on-line dating. Catfishers are one of many scam artists who troll online dating sites and prey on lonely hearts. They virtually woo their mark with love poems, sexy phone calls and texts, dreamy pictures and the promise of eternal love. In the end, these bottom feeders are simply digital […]
