Internet Romance Scams with Chris Salgado
January 6, 2022
LIVE EVENT
For the first CrimeConversation of the New Year, we welcomed Security and Investigations Leader and CEO of All Point Investigations, Christopher Salgado . The chat focused on internet romance scams and phishing schemes, and how to protect against them.
Host Kelly McLear started by asking what prompted his interest and start in the industry. It was by chance, really, and started when he got a gig by answering a newspaper ad for a law firm in Chicago. The company ended up asking him if he wanted to transition into an investigator role, and he decided, why not? Now, 20 years later, he's an expert who has been involved in many different types of investigations, but particularly cyber and social media security. He's worked for Facebook and, this past summer, he even presented to the FBI and Homeland Security.
To start the discussion of scams, McLear brings up common ones we all know, like the "Nigerian Prince." She shared that to prepare for this chat, she looked up some statistics and learned that just in 2020, there were $304 million in losses just from romance scams. Shockingly, Salgado said that the FBI claims that the number is actually $600 million, and that the results depend on the source.
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