Of late there has been reports in the news media of women being conned of millions of dollars through Facebook.
Facebook is the largest social networking media today and millions of people get onto Facebook for several reasons, chief among which is to make friends and to become a friend of their friends too. In this way you get to befriend thousands of people, many of whom you don’t even know, yet you exchange information and at times you can become good friends.
I believe some people have engaged with others on Facebook, got to know them better and some friendships have ended at the altar, living happily ever after.
Others, however have ended at the sacrificial altar where not a few women have fallen prey to sweet-talking men who after a period of time, deceive them into parting with their money. These women fall in love with the men whom they’ve never met but with whom they interacted online. Having lost their hearts to the men, it was only a matter of time before the con men moved in and fleeced them of their money. Things done in the name of love!!!
So blinded are they that it is only much later that they realize they had been duped and cheated of their money. Then only do they make police reports and hope that other women would not fall for the scam. Unfortunately, some women still fail to see through these online Lotharios.
This surely is abuse of Facebook which was set up to facilitate networking among people and friends who update one another with their latest news and photographs.
It is such a shame that Facebook has become a tool in the hands of mobsters, gangsters, conmen, etc., etc. It has become a place where drug mules are lured into trafficking and others inducted into criminal gangs. It has now become a place where you have to tread with care and not just simply befriend anyone. Never fall for a photograph that has been uploaded for it may not be the person’s but someone else’s. So don’t rush in where angels fear to tread.
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