Internet scam!

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4 years ago

The internet has become a tool that governs our lives, whether we like it or not. What do you do when you get up in the morning? You check your inbox, emails, likes on social networks. The internet has become like going to the toilet or having morning coffee.

The internet is fun and full of adrenaline until things get serious. From one click to tears is a long way, but such an unfolding is likely if you are a person living in your own world.

What is internet fraud anyway?

SCAM or internet fraud is a term used to describe abuse or plans to extort money or other property from people who do not suspect fraud. In other words, well-disguised scams that are easy to fall for and in which false information is provided in order to make a profit or confidential information.

Each of us can find ourselves the target of these well-disguised scams, but the most vulnerable are the desperate women who are the most common target of scammers.

Let me tell you a story I read in the daily press on the topic of Internet fraud:

Adela is a lonely woman. Her husband died ten years ago, the children live abroad and she lost contact with her friends. She is in her sixties, retired. She heard from a neighbor that she could open a profile on social media and that intrigued her. She posted her pictures from her younger days, added a couple of acquaintances. That got her out of depression. Then she started getting friend requests. 10, 20, 30 requests from younger men from distant, exotic countries like Egypt and Tunisia, who praised her photos and their age didn’t matter. She started corresponding with one of them. Nouri, an Arab from Morocco, an attractive man in his fifties. He was a true cavalier, sending her roses with coffee every morning. He promised to visit her, but he was plagued by financial problems. He never asked to be sent money, but he followed the opposite logic. “I wish I could hug you.” “You must be even prettier live.” Slowly, Nouri crept into Adele's heart, and then into her wallet.

Adela fell in love and offered him money for a plane ticket. She sent him a certain amount but Nouri delayed his arrival. He said he had health problems, that he needed money for medicine. She sent more money because she wanted her chosen one to be healthy and fit. After being relieved by several thousand euros, his messages stopped coming. One morning she revealed that he had deleted his profile. She couldn't find him anywhere else. Painful sobriety followed, she was more lonely than ever.

Internet scammers are not stupid. They cast their hooks like experienced anglers. They know where they will find fertile ground, examine the terrain and then act step by step. He is decent, he presents himself as a cavalier, because women like that. At some point they will ask you for money. He is sick, he needs medicine, or he has sick parents or sick relatives who need help, and you are his good fairy.

How to neutralize it?

Ignore friendship requests from people without a profile picture, with avatars and those with a small number of friends. Pay attention to his list of friends. Are there pictures of naked women or do many seem fake, with a profile picture of celebrities?

Did he immediately start asking a lot of questions about you and not saying anything about himself?

As children we read fairy tales about princes on a white horse, and today the prince is behind the monitor, and we just have to say YES. But when a prince from a fairy tale turns into a manipulator in the hunt for our bank account, then we pay for our mistakes in the true sense of the word. Sure, you can always report a cheater, but many get away with it because they covered all the clues back in the days when you fantasized about living together and a happy ending.

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4 years ago

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Znam i lika, muškarac, iz naše Facebook družine, koji je pravio ovakve Facebook profile, uglavnom ženske. Prljav, podmukao posao, rabota.

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4 years ago

Da Facebook je raj za takve prevarante dvije online pljačke prošle godine se dogodile u kojima su nepoznati prevaranti putem lažnih Facebook profila dvije žene oštetili za veću novčanu svotu.Putem Facebooka su se tim ženama starima oko 60 godina predstavljali kao američki vojnici na misijama u svijetu, slali im svoje slike u vojnim odorama, i rekli da imaju veću količinu novca kojeg žele s njima podijeliti, no da bi to mogli učiniti, one najprije moraju uplatiti određen iznos novca kako bi se izbjegla carina i kako bi oni paketom mogli novac poslati tim ženama. Poslali su im podatke kako bi mogle uplatiti novac. Jedna od prevarenih žena je novac uplatila putem Western Uniona na ime osobe u Indoneziji, a druga ga je uplatila na račun u Italiji. Žene su iz Bjelovara i prva je oštečena za 8000 kn a druga za 180 000 kn.

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4 years ago

na zalost bojim se da smo tek na pocetku jedne sasvim nove ere kriminala, ovo sto trenutno imamo je samo obicno pijacno sibicarenje preseljeno u digitalni svet, uz naravno neke ozbiljnije price koje su ipak zahtevnije za odraditi i bas se reko usmeravaju direktno na ciljnog prosecnog pojedinca, naravno tu je trenutno sistem ako se upecas upecao si se, medjutim sa razvojem kvantnih racunara, sva trenutna enkripcija podataka u cilju zastite ce vrlo brzo postati laka za probijanje e onda cemo tek videti u kakav cemo haos upasti ako se pre toga ne podignu mere zastite

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4 years ago

Da u pravu ste razvojem nove moderne tehnike računalstva stvara se i novi kriminalitet Najučinkovitija obrana od ove vrste prijevara je obrazovanje potencijalnih žrtava – a to može biti svatko od nas na internetu. Podizanje svijesti u društvu kako identificirati takve prijevarne tehnike učinit će korisnike i njihove financije sigurnijima.

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4 years ago

Bas juce sam ucenicima predavala u skoli o raznim internet prevarama, tacnije viskotehnoloskom ( sajber) kriminalu. Iznenadjujuce mi je da iako su eneracija odrasla uz racunare, mnogo malo znaju o svemu tome. Dobar clanak.

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4 years ago

Internet je postao vrlo privlačan za kibernetičke kriminalce. Napadači se koriste vrlo profinjenim trikovima i obećanjima kako bi od nas izvukli novac ili vrijedne financijske informacije.Taktike koje koriste kibernetički kriminalci postaju sve inovativnije i teže za otkriti. Od pretvaranja da su voditelj vaše organizacije do toga da su zainteresirani za romantičnu vezu, online prevaranti današnjice učinit će sve što je potrebno da dobiju što žele - vaš novac i/ili bankovne podatke.

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4 years ago

Znam, bas im to i govorim, da mnogo paze i sta postavljaju na internet, ali i sta otvaraju, kao i o tome sta treba da urade ukoliko su zrtve nekog nasilja ili pokusaja prevare na internetu.

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4 years ago