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New Internet Scam -WATCHOUT!

Thursday, February 18, 2010 by Mark Tischhauser

Another new scam to watch out for in the Consumer Fraud arena. Scammers now use your personal sites, like Facebook and Myspace as a gateway to hacking your e-mail accounts. Then, having access to your friends send e-mails claiming dire emergency and a need to have money wired to them, usually somewhere out of the country. If you get such an e-mail, DO NOT SEND MONEY until you can verify, by personal contact, that your friend or family member sent the request. At a minimum use a security question for reciept of the money that only your friend or family member would know, rather than simply presenting some form of foreign identification.
Posted at 08:47 AM
Topic: Consumer Fraud
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