‘Go get married in San Marino’, appeal unleashes the web. Facebook profiles of the San Marino citizens taken by storm
The Secretariat of State for Tourism intervened on the matter with a note
Actuality
Republic of San Marino
| 16:19 – 01 October 2021
Who has a Facebook profile, knows well that it is customary to receive friend requests from “fake” profiles of good-looking men and women, profiles that are used as bait for illegal activities (often sexual blackmail) or simply for fishing , through malicious links, and perhaps steal the profile fallen into the trap. But what happened to so many San Marino towns was rather unusual: a shower of friend requests comes from foreign countries, from real people. The mystery was soon resolved. The web was triggered by the appeal made by a blogger with Middle Eastern features (perhaps Arab, perhaps North African), taken up by various media in the area. “Go marry the San Marino women”, the appeal, for alleged benefits that would be granted by the San Marino citizens. The blogger, according to what has been reconstructed, would have boasted the existence of an initiative by the San Marino government aimed at promoting the marriage of citizens with foreign men. “There is no such initiative, it is false information“, had to specify the Secretariat of State of San Marino for tourism, which intervened this afternoon (Friday 1 September) with a note.