Boston Bridal Show Scam Website
Scammers set up a Web site advertising a fake bridal show billed as the "biggest and most extravagant" and used it to steal from thousands of brides-to-be and their vendors, who were lured by chances to win "fabulous gifts and prizes," police and FBI experts said Monday. -------------- the scammers insisted on receiving payments through the PayPal online money transfer service, declining to accept checks |
You have to wonder why PayPal's ever vigilant security department didn't catch this one. My guess is that most of the payments were in the $10-15 range at first and didn't raise any alarms and the bigger ones from vendors came in after the account was established.
Also, the scammers used social media, Facebook and Twitter, to perpetrate the scam.
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