Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Scammers

Here is an interesting article about the military-romantic scam that is run out of Africa and that cost gullible American women millions of dollars. The author was able to upload spyware onto their computers and thus trace everything they were doing. My favorite quote from the article:
An interesting anomaly that was later confirmed to be a wide scale trend was the frequent appearance of President Obama’s picture in many of the scammer workspace images (Image 21). Seventeen out of forty workspace images exhibited this trend. It turns out that BHO is considered to be the patron saint of the scammer industry in Nigeria and Ghana and is viewed as the ultimate scamming success story that everyone is trying to emulate.