Lotsa social media scams going down Down Under
Submitted by Joe Adams on May 17th, 2015.
Social media can have a biting down side.
Karen Collier of the Herald Sun in Australia reports that scammers are mining social media sites in Australia to rip people off of at least $80 million a year. From the story:
Criminals are buying and selling names, addresses, birth dates, bank account and other personal details on the black market to commit identity fraud or find scam victims, a report warns.
Crooks are increasingly turning online to carry out a multitude of cons including romance, investment, computer hacking, shopping and charity scams.
Some have even posed as hitmen threatening to kill people unless they send cash.
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