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That's not what they are saying
SpiderTech 16th Sep 2009
They're not saying all live chats are scams. They are saying that scammers have started implementing the live chat into their scam to get your bank information. Any live chat such as this that I've come across (on legitimate sites) normally doesn't just pop up. You have to click something to request a chat session. Live chat for scamming isn't anything new though. Scammers are just combining their fake website scam with the "live" im scam. I had a "person" who said she was a woman from the local area IM me on yahoo one day while I was in Iraq. I figured out it was a scammer in a matter of a minute or two. Mainly since "she" (could've been a guy) said she got my IM screen name from looking it up. I don't give out my IM name to just anyone and it's very unlikely she found it by doing a search and just decided to IM me based off of the NOTHING that was in my yahoo profile. She sent me pics of a person she claimed to be, but they followed the style of scammers so I knew then she was scamming. She actually carried the "scam" on for about a week before she asked me for money. I knew it was a scammer the whole time and was waiting for her to ask for money. Gave me some story about being on a modeling assignment in Africa and that were forcing her to pay her hotel bill early and she wasn't paid for her work yet, so she needed me to send her money. lol She got dramatic when I kept stalling and said they were going to kill her. So I just made her think she got me killed in Iraq.

Scammers go after gullible people and this new method will no doubt scam a lot of people out of a lot of money.
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