Eduardo Ribeiro falls victim to scam aimed at extorting money from women17 dez 2019
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Domingo Espetacular report in which journalist Eduardo Ribeiro spends two months investigating the use of more than 200 of his photos in fake profiles created to seduce and extort women abroad, including the case of a victim in Scotland who lost around 60,000 reais. Digital crime expert Adriano Vallim examines the phone numbers used by the fraudster and identifies VoIP lines and location masking, pointing to signs of professional or organised criminal activity. The forensic work follows the court action to block the fake profile and reaches the offender's location in Algeria, and it also explains the warning signs in recently created profiles and why online relationships should not be hidden from the family.
The interview is in Portuguese. The summary above is in English.