Give a statement on scams through online and in the mail.

Online and email scams are internet-based forms of fraud that use one or more internet-based services like e-mail, chat rooms, or message boards. Internet fraud may be through the use of stolen or fictitious credit cards, the advertisement of unavailable goods or services or it may be committed through the use of personal ads like the one suggested. Most scams based on emails or personal ads are usually formulated in such a way that the victim is initially unsuspecting. In many cases, the perpetrators usually ask their victims to be very trustworthy and not to tell any other person of the going on. To lure in their victims the perpetrators usually suggest a symbiotic relationship whereby the victim is made to accept to help the perpetrator get out of the fix they are in and in return the victim is promised a certain percentage of the money at stake. After the victim agrees to help the scammer he/she is usually asked to send his/her personal details to the other party. In many cases, these fraudsters usually target a victim from a country that is far away from theirs to make the process safer and more interesting. The victim is usually selected by using their personal information or profiles that they place with websites usually of online dating. After the victim agrees to help he/she is usually asked to obtain a lawyer’s affidavit from the high court of the perpetrator’s country of residence or something else. Since this usually involves traveling which is very expensive the perpetrators usually suggest to the victim to send money instead so that they can obtain the affidavit for them. If the victim fails to suspect this they usually go ahead and send the money to the scammers. Usually, this marks the end of the relation. Many countries across the globe have introduced laws to combat internet fraud although it is usually very difficult to arrest the perpetrators since they sometimes conduct their businesses using wrong identifications.