Roses are red, violets are blue, Valentine scammers are out to trick you

A Nigeria-based gang of scam artists, known as Scarlet Widow, have been using romance scams to trick victims out of large amounts of cash. Secure email company Agari has uncovered the scam which involves posting fake personas on the largest dating websites like Match, eHarmony, and OKCupid. Scarlet Widow also targets relationship seekers on more specialized sites, such as Dating4Disabled.com, FarmersDatingSite.com, and DivorcedPeopleMeet.com, and uses sites for people seeking partners in the US military, including MilitaryCupid.com. Fake personas used include 'Laura Cahill,' a Texan model working in Paris; 'Starling Micheal,' a handsome United States Army captain stationed in Afghanistan, whose… [Continue Reading]