He's hunting through chat rooms, dating sites and social networking sites searching for victims, looking to cash in on romance.If you are over 40, recently divorced, a widow, elderly or disabled then all the better in his eyes.
Instead of sending spam letters that promise millions for your assistance, these scammers are targeting single men and women who are searching for love online.
They use psychological tricks to lure their victims in, use poetry and even gifts to get them under their spell, and then once you are there, will try to reach for your wallet, all the time declaring their "undying love" for you.
Scammers use any weakness they find to their advantage.
It's the newest evolution of the Nigerian advance fee (419) scam.
You or someone you know may be dating this person online right now. No matter how good they sound, things aren't what they appear to be.
In reality you're talking to a criminal sitting in a cybercafé with a well-rehearsed script he's used many times before.
First I'll explain the Distributed Denial Of Service attacks, or DDo S, attacks.
These are the attacks where somebody uses many machines to deny the access to some internet service. Then I'll make a case that IP spoofing, which is faking the IP addresses, allows the most serious attacks.
However, multiple sources have confirmed to us that Humin had limited traction in the crowded contact management space and was struggling to raise further capital.