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confidence trick
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These innocent visitors are then directed to porn sites, or an Adult Friend Finder scam known as Advance fee fraud, an online confidence scam in which the target is convinced to advance moderately small sums of money in the hope of securing a much larger gain.
Adult Friend Finder Is It Really Involved in A Scam? by James M Taylor / Computers and Internet community
There are reports that claim that the personals site has been using deceptive methods such as fake profiles, chat room "decoys", fake communications, and Advance fee fraud (an online confidence scam in which the target is convinced to advance moderately small sums of money in the hope of securing a much larger gain).
Adult Friend Finder Personals Guide by James M Taylor / Relationships community
Pharming is a highly sophisticated extension of the online confidence scam 'Phishing' and is best confined through a blended network security response' that eliminates threats including DNS poisoning, Trojan horse programs and key-logging spyware.
Fortinet prevents pharming by Software World
 
 
 
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