Your credit card is overdrawn, your house has been put up for sale and owes almost all his family members . All to pay for calls and possible "cakewalk" for Sergeant Ray Smith, the love of his life and a soldier based in Iraq U.S., which actually turned out to be a cyber fraudster.
According to the security site Sophos and the British newspaper The Daily Mail , Kates Roberts, divorced with three children and a resident of Leicestershire, England, in October 2009 received an invitation on your profile Friends Reunited Dating, a dating website on the internet, a "handsome" American sergeant based in Iraq, under the name Ray Smith wanted to meet. After
add as a contact in the dating site web, Kate and "Ray Smith" began exchanging emails and then daily chats via MSN.
did not take long, as trust disappointed woman, which convince him to send about $ 4.500 pesos (£ 225 pounds) for the flooring achieve pay phone service and would call every day.
And he did, for almost an entire year, Kate and Smith exchanged phone calls every day. In her opinion on BBC television, the screed was 43, was a widower and his daughter waited 11 years in the U.S., once he finished his service in Iraq.
"Once I came to have doubts about the veracity of his story, but all they told me made sense and sounded reasonable." Why hesitate? By then Kate had several photos of Smith from Iraq, soldiers photos with friends and even pictures of his daughter.
But money for the phone line was not enough. Smith soon asked him to help with monthly payments that exceeded the £ 2000 or £ 3000 pounds. To support his affair
English woman asked the bank loans, use the services of their credit cards and mortgaged his home, particularly after Sergeant Kate will ask you to transfer £ 20.000 pounds to buy false documents that would allow him to leave Iraq for a visit. Visit
that never came, and romance that ended in tragedy for the woman, and one day the phone stopped ringing, the Menssenger sessions are over and there was no more email.
According to British media, the snub of sergeant before the woman went to the nearest U.S. military services in London to ask Ray Smith reports. Neither the name nor the soldiers appear in the records of staff stationed in Iraq. The story of romance
became web fraud, when the victim went to the English authorities who assured him that after tracing the IP of emails and phone line, came from Nigeria, not Iraq.
"This story seems incredible and absurd to many web users, but the reality is that many adults and internet users who may feel vulnerable and it is in those moments when more effectively with this type of fraud," shares the CTO of Sophos Graham Culey in his company blog.
According to Kate Roberts reported his story to the media "to prevent someone else from falling into this type of deception." At the end of her fake web romance Roberts had given 47 years over £ 80.000 pounds sterling (about $ 1.5 million pesos).
Your credit card is overdrawn, your house has been put up for sale and owes nearly all members of your family. All to pay for calls and possible "cakewalk" for Sergeant Ray Smith, the love of his life and a soldier based in Iraq U.S., which actually turned out to be a cyber fraudster.
According to the security site Sophos and the British newspaper The Daily Mail , Kates Roberts divorced with three children and a resident of Leicestershire, England, in October 2009 received an invitation on your profile Friends Reunited Dating , a dating website on the internet, a "handsome" American sergeant based in Iraq, under the name Ray Smith wanted to meet. After
add as a contact in the dating site web, Kate and "Ray Smith" began exchanging emails and then daily chats via MSN.
Before long, women like confidence disappointed, because he was persuaded to send about $ 4.500 pesos (£ 225 pounds) to achieve the pay service flooring phone and could call every day.
And he did, for almost an entire year, Kate and Smith exchanged phone calls every day. In her opinion on BBC television, the screed was 43, was a widower and his daughter waited 11 years in the U.S., once he finished his service in Iraq.
"Once I came to have doubts about the veracity of his story, but all they told me made sense and sounded reasonable." Why hesitate? By then Kate had several photos of Smith from Iraq soldiers photos with friends and even pictures of his daughter.
But money for the phone line was not enough. Smith soon asked him to help with monthly payments that exceeded the £ 2000 or £ 3000 pounds. To support his affair
English woman asked the bank loans, use the services of their credit cards and mortgaged his home, particularly after Sergeant Kate will ask you to transfer £ 20,000 pounds to buy false documents, which would leave Iraq to visit. Visit
that never came, and romance that ended in tragedy for the woman, and one day the phone stopped sonar, the sessions were completed Menssenger and there was no more email.
According to British media, the snub of sergeant before the woman went to the nearest U.S. military services in London to ask Ray Smith reports. Neither the name nor the soldiers appear in the records of staff stationed in Iraq. The story of romance
became web fraud, when the victim went to the British authorities, who assured him that after tracing the IP of emails and phone line, came from Nigeria, not Iraq.
"This story seems incredible and absurd to many web users, but the reality is that many adults and internet users who may feel vulnerable and it is in those moments when more effectively with this type of fraud, "shares the CTO of Sophos Graham Culey in his company blog.
According to Kate Roberts reported his story to the media "to prevent someone else from falling into this type of deception." At the end of her fake web romance 47 years Roberts had delivered more than £ 80,000 pounds (about $ 1.5 million pesos).
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