The saddest reality about the Internet is that anybody can hide to perpetuate evil simply because it is difficult to know the truth about who is on the other side unlike a face-to-face interaction. This is one reason why hacking, scamming and spamming cannot be eradicated completely.
Love is a basic human instinct that can easily be skewed towards the positive or negative depending on the context. Smart alecks who understand this fact have decided to use it in the context of luring potential victims. However, from my personal research, I can conclude that the target of social media “love” spammers (who are guys posing like babes) are guys.
This is a typical way the plot is hatched. The spammer goes to a favourite social media site and look for guys (and in a few cases they target ladies) whom they believe are well to do or that can at least part with some cash and then they add them as friends. After the friend requests are accepted, they would then send a well (in many cases poorly) written script that usually takes this format:
“Hello, How are you Am Miss Mary by Name 23 years old but age from Cape verde Island is just a number i saw your profile today am very happy to be your friend am very sorry if i embarrassing you, am not always online in this face book . — Continue Reading
