This happened to someone I know. She got a call from her supposed Grandson who was stranded in a foreign country and didn’t want to tell his mom. She lost over $2000 to this scam.
For protection, Kovaleff said Internet users should have a firewall and anti- virus and anti-spyware software. “Don’t open attachments in emails from strangers, since they can contain programs that enable crooks to get into your computer remotely,” he …
These people pray on your sympathy’s and it is really a shame it is almost impossible to catch them because they could be operating anywhere in the world. This is one bad thing the Internet has done for us.
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