Police Arrest Two Guys For Nigerian Scams in Florida »
By Krista on Mar 13, 2007 in Identity Theft, Privacy, Spam | 0 Comments
Apparently, it’s not that difficult to make $2-3 million through identity theft. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve undoubtedly received at least one email claiming to be from some wealthy Nigerian (or other foreign country) and offering you a sum of several millions of dollars if you’d only help them get the money out of the country. To do that, you must send them your bank information.
Not surprisingly, there are a lot of “opportunists” out there who give up their info in exchange for this possibility of wealth. These gullible saps soon become the victims of identity theft. Read the rest