Fraudsters create fake accounts on matrimonial websites
Never trust anyone, don’t share your credentials
When they seek money from you, never answer in the affirmative
What’s the scam all about?
It’s everybody’s dream to get a good life partner. And in order to get one, it is a common practice to upload your details on a matrimonial website. Well, your intention would be to expose yourself to a good-charactered boy or girl, but beware! You could end up losing a lot of your hard-earned money to fraudsters!
As a first step in their ploy, fraudsters would update attractive photos on matrimonial websites, creating fake accounts. To give you an impression that the accounts are not phoney, they give genuine credentials of some else. It would be something like you would be fooled to believe that they are working abroad, plundering humongous sums as salary. And you are enamoured by it and show keen interest, they start contacting you. Once they win your confidence, trust us! They even try sending you a gift, as a token of love and admiration. To make you fall further into the trap, they will even send you an invoice of the product they have purchased. Now that you have been completely won over, they even send you a tracking ID so that you can trace the status of the product being sent to you. They even exhort you to keep tracking the product using the ID. All these plots are to just make you believe everything is hunky dory.
How to protect yourself?
Well, never ever trust anyone. That means you will not share your intimate details with them. Secondly, when they seek money from you, never ever answer in the affirmative. Even if you have met them physically, until and unless you are in possession of their genuine credentials, don’t fall prey to it. Thirdly, always inform the police about threat calls you get. Never get intimidated. You can meet the cybercops and pour out your woes. In this way, you can keep yourself safe. In the hurry to get a life partner, don’t reduce yourself to a pauper!
Fraudsters create fake accounts on matrimonial websites
Never trust anyone, don’t share your credentials
When they seek money from you, never answer in the affirmative
What’s the scam all about?
It’s everybody’s dream to get a good life partner. And in order to get one, it is a common practice to upload your details on a matrimonial website. Well, your intention would be to expose yourself to a good-charactered boy or girl, but beware! You could end up losing a lot of your hard-earned money to fraudsters!
As a first step in their ploy, fraudsters would update attractive photos on matrimonial websites, creating fake accounts. To give you an impression that the accounts are not phoney, they give genuine credentials of some else. It would be something like you would be fooled to believe that they are working abroad, plundering humongous sums as salary. And you are enamoured by it and show keen interest, they start contacting you. Once they win your confidence, trust us! They even try sending you a gift, as a token of love and admiration. To make you fall further into the trap, they will even send you an invoice of the product they have purchased. Now that you have been completely won over, they even send you a tracking ID so that you can trace the status of the product being sent to you. They even exhort you to keep tracking the product using the ID. All these plots are to just make you believe everything is hunky dory.
How to protect yourself?
Well, never ever trust anyone. That means you will not share your intimate details with them. Secondly, when they seek money from you, never ever answer in the affirmative. Even if you have met them physically, until and unless you are in possession of their genuine credentials, don’t fall prey to it. Thirdly, always inform the police about threat calls you get. Never get intimidated. You can meet the cybercops and pour out your woes. In this way, you can keep yourself safe. In the hurry to get a life partner, don’t reduce yourself to a pauper!
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