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If you're on Google Hangouts, avoid a 32 year old woman called Clara Jasmine!

I once received a call (really a voice-mail because I don't answer the phone) that said I owe some amount of money and I need to pay or it will go to court. It sounded scary! For a fraction of a second, I was worried!

People are more likely to believe things they're afraid are true and things they wish to be true.
 
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The "hacked" email one has fooled many people. One guy who was caught by law enforcement had netted $800K in 3 months asking for $1200-1600 each time. That means at least 500 victims paid up.
They mask their email address to make it look like it comes from the same email address it was sent to and the password(s) they use are genuine passwords you have used. In my case I usually get 2 emails within minutes of eachother, supposedly from different hackers who use the exact same wording. Each one has one of 2 passwords I used on a short lived forum in 2004/5. That site obviously did get hacked and the passwords associated with that address sold on a TOR site. The gamble is obviously that the targets have poor password precautions, view internet porn and would be ashamed if exposed for doing so. That's alot of people!
I've received emails like that on at least 50 occasions so far.

The ones that really surprise are the "Dr" ones. I've been getting them for years on an email address I've had going since 2001. They must work or they wouldn't keep coming, but you'd think that doctors (of any sort, not necessarily medical) would have enough savvy to be suspicious and not get caught out!
 
Autistamatic said:
The "hacked" email one has fooled many people. One guy who was caught by law enforcement had netted $800K in 3 months asking for $1200-1600 each time. That means at least 500 victims paid up.
They mask their email address to make it look like it comes from the same email address it was sent to and the password(s) they use are genuine passwords you have used. In my case I usually get 2 emails within minutes of eachother, supposedly from different hackers who use the exact same wording. Each one has one of 2 passwords I used on a short lived forum in 2004/5. That site obviously did get hacked and the passwords associated with that address sold on a TOR site. The gamble is obviously that the targets have poor password precautions, view internet porn and would be ashamed if exposed for doing so. That's alot of people!
I've received emails like that on at least 50 occasions so far.

The ones that really surprise are the "Dr" ones. I've been getting them for years on an email address I've had going since 2001. They must work or they wouldn't keep coming, but you'd think that doctors (of any sort, not necessarily medical) would have enough savvy to be suspicious and not get caught out!
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Gosh, what a nightmare!
 
i've had a couple of those over at aspiesingles.com. I think to myself "these people haven't come up with anything new?".

must still be morons out there who fall for this crap.
 
@Mr Allen Trying not to be too cynical here but I think any woman that would say they love you or profess love for you seems a bit questionable to me. Unless you want to get skinned alive like wild prey in Africa you better watch yourself out there brother.
 
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THE FBI has no jurisdiction outside of America for a start, as I keep saying, I am in Sheffield, England.
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Actually, yes, yes they do.
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It does not take very long at all to search. 107 million results in .53 seconds.
 
The "official" response often published by the FBI is as follows: "The FBI has no investigative jurisdiction outside the US, except on the high seas and other locations specifically granted by Congress." Which inevitably calls into play how one chooses to define "jurisdiction".

A term that can be more pragmatically determined in two ways:

1) FBI agents who are formally registered as agents of a foreign power, who can be provided with a potentially wide or narrow variety of authority depending on what a host nation allows.

2) FBI agents specifically deployed to another country having not registered as agents of a foreign power. Whose mission likely violates whatever jurisdiction they are assigned to by either Congress or the President.

No telling how many other intelligence and law enforcement agencies this entails as well. Operating in an official capacity known to a host nation who may have delegated them various powers of investigation and/or arrest, or on a purely covert basis under the pretense of diplomatic immunity or total anonymity.

Plus you also have to factor in any number of operations which may involve the reciprocal participation of other law enforcement agents on a global basis. Some of which have been going on for a very long time:

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2006/february/innocent_images022406

Though in the case of the OP, fraud committed on a pretense of consenting adults isn't likely to end up on the FBI's radar in terms of cybercrimes. Britain's National Crime Agency perhaps, but not the FBI.
 
Somehow I think the chances of the FBI having any interest in a 40 something, disabled, autistic, wrestling fan in the UK are pretty slim when they've got bigger fish to fry ;)
 
Autistamatic said:
Somehow I think the chances of the FBI having any interest in a 40 something, disabled, autistic, wrestling fan in the UK are pretty slim when they've got bigger fish to fry ;)
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Though in the case of the OP, fraud committed on a pretense of consenting adults isn't likely to end up on the FBI's radar in terms of cybercrimes. Britain's National Crime Agency perhaps, but not the FBI.
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Yep. Most but not all of their cybercrime ops involve sting operations to net pedophiles. Particularly those who may be dispensing child pornography and engaged in prostitution on a global basis. Not petty thieves focused on defrauding single people perceived to be looking for romance.
 
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