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"Many people who don't necessarily follow you on a daily basis don't understand if there's been a tragedy in your life. Well, unfortunately those are the types of profiles that get sold in the dark web, so to speak, and people start to use that as a scam target," Mohit Rajhans, emerging media consultant at Thinkstart.ca, told CTV's Your Morning on Monday.