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August 3, 2015 04:00 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4dPYtAmTo_s/girls-catfish-isis-on-social-media-for-travel-money
Girls Catfish ISIS On Social Media For Travel Money
MarkWhittington writes: Yahoo Travel reported that three women in Chechnya took ISIS for $3,300 before getting caught. They are now under investigation for Internet fraud, which seems to be illegal even when committed against the most fearsome terrorist army in modern times. The scam seems to be a combination of the Nigerian Prince con, in which a mark is fooled into giving the con artist large sums of money and catfishing, in which the mark strikes up an online romance with someone he thinks is an attractive woman (or man depending on the gender and preference of the mark.)Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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