Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
The blog article below is about a common facebook scam. I have seen a lot of obviously fake facebook profiles scroll by. I am facebook friends with a lot of moron guys, because of mma. They keep adding the fake profiles as friends. Here is one example of such a profile: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011699749767
Anyone with half a brain should be able to see that a profile like that is fake, but guys see a nice pair of t!ts, and lose function of their few working brain cells. Some of the fake profiles are pushing links to blogs that will inevitably lead to porn and/or spyware/malware. Others, I'm guessing, are set up to run the scam outlined below.
http://www.saratogian.com/article/ST/20160511/LOCAL1/160519980
A young man gets a “friend request” on Facebook from an attractive young woman. He notices she is pretty and her profile says she’s a college student from, in this case, Buffalo. He then looks to see if he shares any friends with this girl and sure enough her profile reveals she is friends with a dozen other young men he knows. Feeling safe he accepts her friend request and we are off to the races.
A couple of days after making friends with this person on Facebook he gets a private message. It’s the pretty girl from Buffalo wanting to chat. At first it is all harmless and routine, “What do you do for fun? What are your hobbies and interests?” That kind of thing. Then the girl asks the boy if he likes sex? Once the young man takes the bait the girl suggests he go to a private place in his home and turn on the video chat function on his phone or computer so they can see each other.
Everything I’ve just described happened to a local teen I interviewed; we’ll call him “Sam:” That’s not his real name but when I tell you what happened next you’ll understand why I’m protecting his identity. Sam starts to video chat with the pretty woman and she starts taking her clothes off. She asks Sam to do the same and then encourages him to engage in some inappropriate sexual behavior over this video chat exchange. The second he did the young girl disappeared and Sam’s own naked image suddenly appeared on his computer screen. He asked the girl what was going on and then he realized it was too late.
There was no pretty young woman on the other end of the phone or computer. The Facebook profile was fake, the girl he saw was no more than a prerecorded videotape and he was about to be blackmailed by a syndicate of bad guys running this scam from outside the country. He received a message on his screen telling him they recorded what he was just doing and he would have to pay $5,000 or they would share the video with his friends, family and people he works with. How would they get access to all those people? He gave them access when he accepted the “friend request” a few days earlier.
Anyone with half a brain should be able to see that a profile like that is fake, but guys see a nice pair of t!ts, and lose function of their few working brain cells. Some of the fake profiles are pushing links to blogs that will inevitably lead to porn and/or spyware/malware. Others, I'm guessing, are set up to run the scam outlined below.
http://www.saratogian.com/article/ST/20160511/LOCAL1/160519980
A young man gets a “friend request” on Facebook from an attractive young woman. He notices she is pretty and her profile says she’s a college student from, in this case, Buffalo. He then looks to see if he shares any friends with this girl and sure enough her profile reveals she is friends with a dozen other young men he knows. Feeling safe he accepts her friend request and we are off to the races.
A couple of days after making friends with this person on Facebook he gets a private message. It’s the pretty girl from Buffalo wanting to chat. At first it is all harmless and routine, “What do you do for fun? What are your hobbies and interests?” That kind of thing. Then the girl asks the boy if he likes sex? Once the young man takes the bait the girl suggests he go to a private place in his home and turn on the video chat function on his phone or computer so they can see each other.
Everything I’ve just described happened to a local teen I interviewed; we’ll call him “Sam:” That’s not his real name but when I tell you what happened next you’ll understand why I’m protecting his identity. Sam starts to video chat with the pretty woman and she starts taking her clothes off. She asks Sam to do the same and then encourages him to engage in some inappropriate sexual behavior over this video chat exchange. The second he did the young girl disappeared and Sam’s own naked image suddenly appeared on his computer screen. He asked the girl what was going on and then he realized it was too late.
There was no pretty young woman on the other end of the phone or computer. The Facebook profile was fake, the girl he saw was no more than a prerecorded videotape and he was about to be blackmailed by a syndicate of bad guys running this scam from outside the country. He received a message on his screen telling him they recorded what he was just doing and he would have to pay $5,000 or they would share the video with his friends, family and people he works with. How would they get access to all those people? He gave them access when he accepted the “friend request” a few days earlier.
