Warning to all on Facebook who share their phone number to friends and friends of friends.
There is a current scam on Facebook where guys are adding hundreds of thousands of people a day and collecting their phone numbers and what ever personal information they can about them. Real names, date of birth, city they reside in. They then read their wall for who they interact with the most that lives with in the same general area. They then call one of the two or both and say the other got a loan and used them as a reference. They then force the person to pay them what ever total is owed, or a reduced amount. They next wipe out that person’s credit card with a series of $1 $10 $100 $1000 charges until the victim is busted.
Some people have so much as give up bank account information and or used a debit card for the transaction. One lady who’s daughter got her on Facebook was wiped clean, because she thought her daughter was in trouble. The scammer went on to try the scam with the rest of her family. By the end of the day, the scammer called everyone on her friends list. If you get the “payday loan” phone call or “Bureau of law enforcement” phone call to collect some money from you that your friend owes, do not confirm knowing anyone they talk about. In fact, claim that person is deceased if you have to. But avoid knowing them at all. Contact your local authorities and explain the situation. Next call all listed friends and family on your Facebook account and tell them all to not share their phone number to “friends of friends”. Also warn them the call should be coming to them next.
It’s not Facebooks responsibility to make you think about safety. Although it is their location that you are at risk, but you could never prove it was because of Facebook that you got scammed.
By all means, DO NOT LIST THE PLACE YOU WORK. If you have that only visible to the people you know……. Um…. they already know this.
Tag: scammed
Cell phones at Wal-Mart
I ordered a cell phone from Wal-Mart because the advertisement showed that if I signed a contract i would get the phone plus $100. That is what it would take to get me to drop my current carrier, because of the fees they jam you with when you close an account, and all that.
Okay, great deal, right? I mean it isn’t the best phone on the market and the color is a little jacked but hell, I get 100 back. Fine. and they have it in stock. I can get it in a couple days.
Okay, I see they added the tax to the end like they said they would. but now the thing is out of stock.
After all was said and done, I got charged $100 from my checking account and after I got charged from my bank account on something that was supposed to be free + 100 more back. The damn thing is out of stock. Okay, If I am paying $100 up front then since I am supposed to “make $100” then I should get $200 cash back because $100 is outta my pocket for picking basic stuff.
Now the funny part is, you have to print out a pdf for your mail in rebate. I mean come on guys . You mean to tell me they can’t spit out the cash it takes to ship the rebates with the dang phone? wtf!
when I went back to the site after the guy from the complaint line told me to look,it had changed to say something along the lines of how it ends today and had a link that said “only with family share plans” what kinda shit is that?
December25
december 26th
Just a heads up you guys.