THELOGICALINDIAN - The Belgian regulator the Financial Services and Markets Authority FSMA says scammers are employing new techniques which ambition Tinder and Facebook users Using what the FSMA agreement an affecting betray abyss are targeting macho users of the dating app Tinder with promises of aberrant allotment on investments However the declared investments are in actuality allotment of a artifice to bamboozle biting Tinder users As anon as the bluff gets the victims money they disappear
Use of Fake Profiles
In a accessible warning issued Dec. 3, the Belgian regulator explains how cybercriminals ambition macho users of the app with affected profiles that affection “pictures of a absorbing woman.” According to the warning, the scammer(s), who usually uses a account of a woman of Asian descent, initiates acquaintance by bottomward a “Super Like” on the targeted victim’s Tinder profile. Once advice is established, the bluff will argue the victim to move the babble to Whatsapp.
As the altercation continues on Whatsapp, the bluff will eventually explain how “she doesn’t accept to anguish about money and her banking future.” This prompts the targeted being to become curious.
When the victim asks how she is authoritative all that money, the bluff will again acknowledge her “secret” and asks the victim to chase her footsteps by advance in cryptocurrencies (new ICOs). The bluff will accelerate the victim a articulation to the advance website. However, the FSMA warns the articulation will instead absolute the victim to a “fraudulent online trading belvedere about produced in English and Chinese.”
Hacked Facebook Accounts
Meanwhile, in accession to targeting Tinder users, scammers are additionally hacking Facebook accounts and are application the comprised accounts to advance counterfeit advance schemes. The FSMA explains:
Meanwhile, the regulator is admonishing those gluttonous to advance to be alert of investments that affiance allotment which are absolutely disproportionate. It adds “where a acknowledgment seems too acceptable to be true, it usually is.”
Furthermore, the FSMA is auspicious investors to do a accomplishments analysis of the advance aggregation afore committing funds. Finally, the FSMA wants investors to argue its website afore committing funds to an advance platform.
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