Title: Sextortion Scam
As a photographer, I received a lot of
new strange friends’ requests on Facebook almost every day. Some of them
even leave me a Private message saying that they wanna be friends and
offer me for a free shooting. My friends thought I’m so lucky to be
able to have ‘free lunch’ everyday but hey, I am actually saying
NO to them.
Why? Simply because I thought it is too
good to be true! Don’t you think so too?
There are so many news about Sextortion
scams happening daily around the World. We have seen men being
trapped by ‘pretty women’ on the Internet to take off their
clothes for the imaginary Internet Sex. And then what happen the next
day? The man being blackmail for money.
On the other hand, we also heard that
women being cheated by some ‘handsome and rich men’ who came from
overseas. They fell in love so much that the guy wanted to marry the
girl but he has some financial problems, thus the woman transferred
all their hard earn money to the virtual boy friend and thus lost all
their money at last.
In fact, I believe this Sextortion case
is happening every moment, even when you are reading this post right
now.
For me, I always
think that we must be extra careful when using the Internet.
Sometimes, we still have to protect ourselves to maintain our
privacy. Do not disclose too much on the Internet especially to
strangers or even close friends. Who knows what is their intention,
right?
If you happen to be a victim of
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