Flirting Bot to Steal Your ID

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If you are a regular visitor of a chatroom on the Internet, you have to be extra careful now when you meet new people. Besides real people, there are also flirty chat-room bots that can seduce you in order to get your personal identities like your phone number, address, or even credit card number and password. The bot is created by Russian programmers and it is termed CyberLover. Initially, it is invented to help men look for new girl friends without wasting so much time roaming around looking for them. The software has the ability to make the acquaintance of about 15 people in half an hour. The girls will not know that they were actually talking with a software. However, the bot can elicit their personal informations and sell them to the ID thieves, and so it makes the bot potentially dangerous.