(Online Dating Industry Journal) NASA isn't identifying an employee who caused a breach on NASA's computers when the employee opened an email attachment from an online dating scammer. The scammer had communicated with the employee via an online dating service and they started emailing each other. The scammer was caught and sentenced in Nigeria.
According to DarkReading.com:
"The perpetrator, Akeem Abejumo, who was arrested last week, allegedly sent an email attachment to the victim that contained malware that captured and stole the victim’s personal information from the NASA computer..."
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What an interesting article. I recently posted an article about Online Dating Scams and specifically about similar scams to the one referenced in this article originating from Nigeria.
Your commentary alerted me to one aspect of this scam I did not reference in my recent article and that was about opening email attachments received from 'suspicious' individuals met through an online dating service. It never hurts to be too careful when interacting with strangers online. In my article I mention some tips about how to spot imposters or scammers and I think it would be useful for your visitors to check it out before they wind up like the NASA employee referenced in this article. Wow!
Posted by: Web Personals Online | May 04, 2008 at 06:58 PM