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louisgray.com: louisgray.com: 419 Scammers Set Up Roost on Facebook

  • ursi · 10 months ago
    Well, isn't that just great. (sarcasm)
  • Josh Chandler · 10 months ago
    Well, there you go, first Facebook walls (http://tr.im/ccjo), then phishing scams on Facebook login (http://tr.im/ccjv), now finally mail starts to see some spamming action! This is the inevitable consequence of any form of text mailing, although the privacy adjustments in the account settings can surely help to prevent this?!?!
  • marshal sandler · 10 months ago
    If law enforcement in Nigeria was awake they might find this a nice tool to eliminate the scams created in their Country ! I suppose the Lady adds to subscriber stats on Facebook , now if every blogger in the US made a short blurb about her and posted it on Facebook the problem if solvable would be handled !
  • DavidMercury · 10 months ago
    Hi Louis,

    Thanks for a great post.

    I am afraid that we are only seeing the start of what i believe will be a tidal wave of attempted fraud on all the social networks, not only Facebook. The fraudsters abuse the inherent trust that is present in all social networks to take advantage of people.

    John Dierckx of ARCIS Fraud Discovery & Exposure Centre wrote of a similar scheme http://arcisfdec.blogspot.com/2009/01/facebook-...

    I have also recently written on the same subject at Corporate Crime Watch. http://corporatecrimewatch.wordpress.com
  • Chuck Gallagher · 10 months ago
    David...I got one from Stella too. For a while I thought that e-mail thru Facebook might be the route. Then I got Stella's request. Guess nothing is scared! Still - Facebook - is an awesome tool and I sure find it's use valuable in business... so the best I can do is overlook Stella.
  • gilly · 10 months ago
    Good warning. Thanks for the advice
  • it doesn't matter · 10 months ago
    facebook is garbage
  • Josh Chandler · 10 months ago
    Says who? What is your reason for hating Facebook?
  • JusticeNow · 4 months ago
    Scammers are not just from Nigeria. They are in most 3rd world countries that try to make a quick buck.

    Two companies that come to mind are edigitalstream.com and superfreehosting.com. All from Pakistan. Their favorite targets are to scam people from US and Canada. They use fake addresses and want to claim they are in the UK.