Online Scammers Manipulate with Kidnapping Incidence of Schoolgirls

E-mail scammers in their latest run are exploiting the unfortunate event wherein 200-or-more innocent female students of a school were kidnapped inside Nigeria-situated Borno State in the north-east of the country, reports Conrad Longmore, Security Researcher with Dynamoo's Blog, published techworm.net, May 25, 2014.

Apparently, an Islamist fundamentalist faction by the name Boko Haram was the kidnapper that has pledged it would traffic the schoolgirls for money so they would work as slaves alternatively make them brides of the jihadists engaged in various bloody conflicts worldwide.

The terrifying circumstance initiated widespread public awareness once a hashtag labeled #BringBackOurGirls was disseminated all over through social media, while famous personalities, one being US President Barack Obama's wife Michelle Obama, joined the currently going scheme.

In the fraudulent e-mail, Longmore noticed the header displaying "#BringBackOurGirls."

Showing a Gmail address in the sender's field with certain name as 'Joy Marcus,' the e-mail's text, however, asserts the writer's name as Mary Sambo as well as takes recipients onto one Yahoo e-mail id rather than the Gmail.

Enough though is, the discrepancy suggests the e-mail as false, still there are grammatical mistakes along with reasonable inconsistencies within a tale Sambo narrates. She asserts that the girls the Islamist militant gang kidnapped included her daughters too as well as that the gang even killed her husband. Currently, she's seemingly pregnant by 7 months while has taken abode inside one church hostel where thirty more females were residing.

It requires no mention that albeit the hostel is able to facilitate with neither proper residential means nor medical attention to pregnant women, it maintains an excellent Internet for tracing any resident through social media. In the e-mail, Sambo requests a reply for discussing further for sending money so she can meet her medical expenses.

Certainly, the person, 'Mary Sambo' is wholly made up, as Google+ profile of the Gmail id proves. Besides, there's Yvette Fintland the American model/actress's photograph in the Google+ A/C.

Meanwhile, in a similar incidence of cyber-scam exploiting tragic mishap, during March 2014, e-mail scammers piggybacked on the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 that had mysteriously disappeared, towards serving malware to Facebook members.

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