They bonded over their online dating scammer stories and got married 14 months later.
Clicking on the link handed my e-mail address and Facebook password to the scammer.
Sometimes the scammer will use eloquent romantic language that is plagiarized from the Internet.
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The scammer asks for money to get out of a bad situation or to provide a service.
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Madoff, on the other hand, was a scammer from the get-go that took regulators decades to detect.
The scammer claims to be a native-born American citizen, but uses poor grammar indicative of a non-native English speaker.
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Sometimes, the scammer claims to have an accompanying child overseas who is very sick or has been in an accident.
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Shockingly, even legitimate sites or ones belonging to a real relief group could contain an unauthorized pop-up created by a scammer.
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By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor.
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Like many other companies, Google uses a system called DomainKey Identified Mail (DKIM) to validate that mail sent from Google.com really comes from Google, and not from a scammer pretending to be Google.
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And then he goes to New York City for a speaking engagement, and finds a young immigrant couple living in his long-vacant apartment they've been taken in by a real estate scammer.
Wilpon, who gradually asserted more control during the 1990s before buying out Doubleday in 2002 and installing his son Jeff as chief operating officer, has lost an undisclosed chunk of his personal fortune to scammer Bernie Madoff.
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