Taltarzac725
11-04-2014, 01:48 PM
I was doing Facebook and suddenly up pops a woman claiming to work at Facebook who wants to chat with me. I say OK. She is friendly for a few messages on chat. The next day-- today-- she tells me that I have won $600,000 in a lottery. 12 other people were winners in a random selection and she speaks for the Facebook CEO and assures me that this is legit and legal and known to the FBI.
I give her some personal information to see what she does next. If this is even the woman shown in the picture. Quite a nice looking Yuppie is in the photo of "Grace Martins".
Anyway, I give her the information like my number to my burner phone and unfortunately my name and address and e-mail. I will have to make sure I do not open any e-mails sent from unknown people. That includes some likeness of Facebook which did come up on my burner phone.
I reported all this with the record of the chat that Facebook created to Facebook. They have removed Grace Martins from the Facebook list of users.
So, just a warning if you get a friendly woman on Facebook or a man too who wants to chat and then starts talking about a lottery and how you must keep quiet about it to get the money, it is time to report the matter. "Her" claiming to work for Facebook kind of threw me for a loop.
Grace Martins seems to be a name that these scammers have been using since 2007 or so.
I give her some personal information to see what she does next. If this is even the woman shown in the picture. Quite a nice looking Yuppie is in the photo of "Grace Martins".
Anyway, I give her the information like my number to my burner phone and unfortunately my name and address and e-mail. I will have to make sure I do not open any e-mails sent from unknown people. That includes some likeness of Facebook which did come up on my burner phone.
I reported all this with the record of the chat that Facebook created to Facebook. They have removed Grace Martins from the Facebook list of users.
So, just a warning if you get a friendly woman on Facebook or a man too who wants to chat and then starts talking about a lottery and how you must keep quiet about it to get the money, it is time to report the matter. "Her" claiming to work for Facebook kind of threw me for a loop.
Grace Martins seems to be a name that these scammers have been using since 2007 or so.