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are some newspaper articles related with online romance scam in Malaysia. These
are separate issues and cases caught this year by the Royal Malaysia Police. Most
scammers involved are Nigerians, Cameroonian and African. All the victims are Malaysian and
were cheated by scammers through social medias such as Facebook, Tagged,
Twitter and online dating sites. The scammers has their own special modus
operandi by creating fake profiles by using someone else picture especially stolen pictures of real military personnel.
From the above all the scammers that were arrested in Malaysia were foreigners especially from African and Nigeria. According to Hamsi.A., Bahry. F., Tobi. S. & Masrom.M., 2015 there were less scholarly evidence that these scams directly relate the scammers incident with the African or Nigerian, however most arrested in Malaysia was African.
ReplyDeleteIn my point of view scammers easily obtain money by taking advantage of women or man who are desperately in need of a life partner or good friends to share their feelings. Loneliness is one factor that makes the scammer easily take advantage of their victim.
Another reason love scam happen is due to the big numbers of social and dating sites available online. Scammers may be connected with many online dating websites at one time looking for multiple victims. Victim should not reveal all the information online especially information on banking and financial status. Instead they should ask more information from the other party.
Before deciding to accept the ‘friendship’, a person should do some detailed background checking about their ‘new online friend’ regarding place of work, family background and check on the trustworthy of the websites. In some cases a person may also go to many available websites related with issues about online love scam to check the description of scammers who have cheated others previously (confession from the love scam victim).
BEFORE DECIDING TO FURTHER ANY ONLINE RELATIONSHIP; ONE IS ADVISED TO DO THEIR ‘HOMEWORK' FIRST.