More than 80 per cent of respondents in Bahrain to a survey highlighting the victims of online scammers revealed that they, or their loved ones, had suffered from criminals via social media.
In most cases fraudsters pretended to be familiar with their potential targets in a manipulation scheme presented as a request for help from a friend (71pc), according to the investigation carried out by global cybersecurity and digital privacy company, Kaspersky .
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