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Vampiremerchant
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 7:27 pm Reply with quoteBack to top
Just came across this

http://blog.avast.com/2013/06/25/cybercrooks-use-vacation-posts-to-scam-family-members/

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 9:54 am Reply with quoteBack to top
A new approach which is lucrative for the scammers.

From the link within the article.

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Floridians lost $444,000 last year using MoneyGram wire transfers as a result of 293 scams that targeted vacationers' relatives,


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Nationwide, unknowing victims of the grandparent scam used MoneyGram to wire $20.5 million to con artists in 2012, the company said. MoneyGram said it prevented $14 million worth of those transfers and returned that money to the victims.


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Consider a massive grandparent scam last year in Central Florida that bilked an elderly man out of $816,000, according to a Seminole County Sheriff's Office report.
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