5 Facebook Scams You Should Protect Yourself From

-Protect Yourself Icon- As Facebook has grown in popularity, it has also become a primary target for hackers and spammers. An increasing number of Facebook users are having their accounts compromised. Each newly compromised account is then used by the hackers and scammers to propagate their scam further. You don’t need to be an idiot to have your account compromised. If you are caught off guard for a second, you may accidentally fall for one of these scams. Learn how to protect yourself in this article.

1. IQ Quiz Ads

-IQ Quiz Ads Screenshot-

While Facebook has spent the past year trying to cut down on the number of misleading advertisements on the site, the fact remains that a small percentage of users still get duped into purchasing services they don’t really want. The IQ Quiz Scam has become ubiquitous on the Facebook Platform, and those users who install applications can expect to see an advertisement for an IQ Quiz Scam at some point. In December we covered one application developer who was using spammy techniques to get new users to install their application and ultimately click on the IQ Quiz advertisements.

As soon as you click on one of the ads, you’ll be brought to a site where you’re asked up to 10 questions which are relatively easy to answer. You will then be prompted to enter your phone number to view the results. Don’t enter your phone number! If you do, you will be charged upwards of $10 a week directly to your phone bill. While most phone companies are willing to refund you for your first purchase, they won’t do it after the first occurrence. That’s because the phone companies generate billions of dollars each year off of these types of transactions.

If you want to protect yourself from IQ quiz scams, do not enter your phone number into any sites outside of Facebook.

2. I’ve Been Robbed! Western Union Me Money!

-Western Union Scam-

You’re browsing around Facebook and suddenly one of your friends IMs you to tell you that they’re stuck in another country, they’ve been robbed, don’t have a wallet, and need money to get out of the country. It’s a horrible situation but what are the odds that they found a computer to log on to in order to instant message you? Even worse, what are the odds that one of your friends who was traveling abroad got robbed and wasn’t able to find anybody to help them out?

I’ve been with people who’ve lost their wallet abroad and needed to get money sent via Western Union, however if the person can get access to Facebook, they probably can access a phone. While you should always help out your friends, you can avoid being duped by international fraudsters by asking your friend to call you in order to wire the money. Unless your friend is in the middle of a jungle in the Congo, they should be able to call you.

Most of the times that this happens, it is a scammer who has stolen your friend’s account and is systematically going through and IMing each of their friends to try and get money wired to them. Don’t fall for it!

3. Facebook Phishing Landing Pages

-Facebook Phishing Screenshot-

One of the most common ways Facebook accounts get compromised is through simple phishing scams. The way it works is that a user’s account is compromised by a hacker and the hacker then uses that account to automatically post links on each of that user’s friends’ walls. Sometimes the system will send messages to the friends such as “Check out this funny video of you!” with a link that redirects to a page with a fake Facebook login page (as pictured above).

It’s pretty straight forward, and it’s easy to avoid, however countless people have fallen for this scam. The easiest way to tell if it’s a scam is by looking at the URL of the page you land on. The best way to protect yourself is, anytime you see a Facebook login page, leave it and go to http://www.facebook.com in your browser. That way you can ensure you are logging in to the correct site.

4. Koobface Worm That Automatically Hijack Your Account

We’ve written about the Koobface worm on a number of instances, and while Facebook has worked to aggressively prevent the worm, it continues to spread today. The scam is pretty straight forward. In the attack, a user will receive a message from what appears to be one of their friends. The message will say things like “Paris Hilton Tosses Dwarf On The Street; Examiners Caught Downloading Grades From The Internet; Hello; You must see it!!! LOL. My friend catched you on hidden cam; Is it really celebrity? Funny Moments” and many others.

Included in the message will be a link to a page which appears to be a YouTube video. If you click on the video, you will be prompted to “upgrade your Flash player now” and will then be asked to download a file which contains the Koobface worm. If you download and install the file, your computer will automatically log in to Facebook and send similar messages to your friends. The best way to avoid this scam is to avoid all links that are posted on your wall or in your inbox that are out of the ordinary. Also, never download a file after clicking on a link.

To learn more about the Koobface worm, check out the information at the Kapersky Lab.

5. Other Malware Applications And Links

While we’ve attempted to highlight the primary scams, hackers and scammers are constantly evolving their strategies to steal passwords, and take over computers. The best thing to do is always be weary of strange links posted to your profile or inbox as well as avoid downloading any files that you’re prompted to, no matter what. While many of the scams on Facebook are harmless to your computer, its important to protect yourself against any viruses and worms.

Some Facebook applications have used toolbars among other things to make money from their application. Some of these toolbars will significantly damage your computer. The bottom line is this: be on guard any time you see something suspicious. If you do happen to fall for a scam though, make sure to immediately change your password. If you aren’t able to access your account because you were phished and your password was reset, fill out this form.

Koobface icon via thingamatech

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Comment by June Green — January 5, 2010 @ 6:48 am
Thanks for that

Comment by Rasak — January 5, 2010 @ 7:30 am
always be *wary* (not weary)

there are more than one typo/misspelled/bad grammar errors in this article. please proofread. Errors make the article look spammy.

Comment by PamelaJaye — January 5, 2010 @ 7:44 am
Vrey nice post, I have replicated it in my wall for my friends to read it, thank you!!

Comment by Rodolfo Salazar — January 5, 2010 @ 10:03 am
Great post. Thanks for keeping your eyes open for these scams.

Comment by Jarrett Gucci — January 5, 2010 @ 10:12 am
June, Empty your cookie folder, that should help.

Comment by Mo Ford Mulligan — January 5, 2010 @ 11:12 am
won’t stay still

Comment by June Green — January 5, 2010 @ 10:49 am
Thanks for the information. Good to know.We all need to be very careful.. Thank You.

Comment by Barbara Anderson — January 5, 2010 @ 1:16 pm
I am always wary of most facebook applications as I had a long conversation with someone from McCafee at a conference telling me how most viruses are downloaded through facebook quizzes and games. Saying that they are excellent tools for procrastination!

Thanks for highlighting the main villains as I get paranoid thinking they are all evil when many are just clever social media tools

Comment by Seobelle — January 6, 2010 @ 3:00 am
Thanks… And keep us updtaed! I have had some problems with F/B. And, trying to beware of anything that may look different. I Love F/B!!! But, u will "Have" bad people all over doing ugly things.

Comment by Christina Novak — January 6, 2010 @ 4:48 am
Thanks for the information! What about the zoo application and SSP?

Comment by Marilyn Fisher — January 6, 2010 @ 4:46 pm
Thanks for the info. And yes, keep us updated please!

Comment by Irena — January 19, 2010 @ 11:57 am
I got scammed money to someone who posed as friend.

Comment by Steve Wright — February 16, 2010 @ 10:12 am
Is this a scam? I got a message from a woman in my facebook email. She said she is coming through my town and wondered if I could tell her points of interest in the area. She said she found me by searching people who know my town "XXXX", MA. Well I tried it and it is true, you can find me easily linked to my town. That's not my issue though. After writing back to her, even though I sure her picture was not real (looks porn star-ish–but not quite–just over the top sexy)I took another look at her profile. Well She is listed as being a He. What is up with this? I thought it was odd to begin with, and now I find out that it's a man. What possible angle could there be?

Joanne

Comment by jo — February 25, 2010 @ 5:21 am
Many thanks-not easily attracted to anything unusual on FB,but good to get the info.

Comment by Frances Heneghan — March 3, 2010 @ 7:08 am
I’ve had friend requests from women I don’t know, in both cases the pics were of attractive women yet there profile showed very few friends…something not right about it, that or I’m passing on some good looking friends.

Comment by Dave P. — March 3, 2010 @ 3:57 pm
I just had an email from facebook deaf promo telling me i was chosen for a prize of $50,000 us. But i had to send them $500 us in order for them to send me my prize. Just wondering if anyone has had the same thing happen to them?

Comment by melodie — March 22, 2010 @ 2:58 pm
A friend has "fanned" two pages that look fishy to me, but I don't want to click through for fear of messing up my own system. One is "This has to be the SADDEST status update ever! I cried when i read it.. =( If you thought this was SAD, Please press the LIKE button,, Thanks" and the other is "HIS IS THE WORST, SICKEST WALL POST EVER IN FACEBOOOOK!!!". Once you "Fan" the page, it points to another website. Does anyone know what the nature of these sites are?

Comment by gobsmack — March 30, 2010 @ 9:37 am
Melodie, Yes, I received the email message below –

THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING COMMISSION.

Hello,i am XXXXXX XXXXXX.i am the secretary of deaf and hard of hearing commission(DHHC).DHHC is a charity organisation that help deaf and hard of hearing.DHHC is in collaboration with FACEBOOK company by selecting all the email addresses of people that are active online,among the millions that subscribed to FACEBOOK we only select THREE people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,and your screen name has won you the sum of $100,000.00. we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.to claim your money get back to me on XXXXXXXX@yahoo.com. This is a scam, why would a charity be giving out money….

Comment by 2bambinos — March 31, 2010 @ 10:59 am
I hate it when PEOPLE send you a scam, thank you !!

Comment by mLtoo — April 4, 2010 @ 8:42 am
this scam just developped last week.A guy Kiven Williams from london Uk,befriended me for many many weeks we messaged each other ..he said he was a devote christian, widower, raising his only son Tom…he was very encougaring and christian like he played the son to sound cute, worry u with his son taken in hospital….he played on a emotional level and making u feel for him…Parents died in a house fire when he was 8, wife die of a cancer 5 years ago. He present himself as a business man who has to travel once a month leaving his son with a nanny…his desire is to find one day a virtous women…ect.story short…he goes to Ghana on business taking his son… In Ghana he has problem and need to go to Nigeria…he promissed to give new in the next 9 to 10 hous…4 days later he message that he has been embushed rob at gun point …he is severely hurt and tom his son is in a coma for the last X DAYS AND HE IS NOT ALLOWED TO SEE HIM…HE IS IN GREAT PAIN…HE THEN INVITE ME TO GO ON MSN to chat…story short he need 750 US $ and play the lost and hopless..no insurance on visa…no medical travel insurance…I must not call the ambassy ( UK) cuz they will take his son away from him cuz they will not understand why I took the kid with….all emotionnal you feel devastated…he even say that u are the only person who can help him…please I give u back the money ..IF NECCESARY…what…of course it would be a must…so ALERT AS MANY MIDDLE AGE WOMEN THIS GUY IS PROWLING AROUND…

Comment by Maria Fiorenza-Marol — April 9, 2010 @ 10:24 pm
Has anyone had a bad experience from those web designers on facebook? I've probably been scammed by one of them- she asked for the money upfront to do a webpage for me- told me she's supporting her dear elderly parents, blah blah- then after she got the payment, she disappeared. From what the fraud squad told me, sounds like the work of the Nigerian ring.

Comment by ann — April 29, 2010 @ 6:16 pm
hi i was asked to give out personal information to obtain 50 thousand dollars and that the ceo of facebook picked my name to be awarded through deafpromo…i know this is a scam, is it?

Comment by anne kellner — May 19, 2010 @ 6:28 am
my cell # is not on my facebook page yet I recieved a msg on my cell from a local cell # saying "poke"…asked ? and got a msg saying it is a facebook thingy and it likes to say hi…anyone come across something like this? my cell # isnt listed anywhere…thinking someone is pranking me and not a scam..not sure

Comment by Tito — June 2, 2010 @ 7:22 am
I had a message from a Mazad Adable stating that he has recieved order from a mr Dr.JOHN KOFI to transfer $2000000 usd in 5000 installments to my account on the email it says to contact him on a bt internet email adress and is 'signed' at the bottom Mr Johnson Chijioke

they state that they need me to contact them to give them tax clearance to do so Is this just a scam?

Comment by Nathan Dibley — June 9, 2010 @ 12:43 am
Maria Fiorenza

I am a victim also and I am sure when I read your story that I am a victim off the same gang. UK – devoted christian – orphanage – wife and children death in a carcrash – I am a smart socially engaded woman and I am really ashamed to walk in the trap of these evil persons.I read a lot off simular stories and I would be very glad if you drop be a message on my facebook. I am pretending since a week that I do not know the truth yet. I lost the 950 dollars, that will be a lesson for the rest of my life, but badder than all the money, I am feeling violated in my innerme. I am living in your country off birth.

Comment by Chris Cache — June 9, 2010 @ 8:26 am
watch out for online dating sluts two of them tried to hit me for cash ghana i did not buy in to it im no sucker

Comment by frank grebely — June 13, 2010 @ 10:44 pm
I was just sent a message telling me that I was selected by a computer ballot system for an ongoing lottery. I was told I had won 800 000 pounds. but before they could get the courts to process anything, i had to pay for the legal services…

anyway I asked one of their contacts if we could do a deal by him paying the legal proceedings; and when all goes fine i will reimberse the legal fee plus give him 5% of the prize.

I am still waiting for his reply…HAHAH!

Comment by Graeme — July 5, 2010 @ 2:35 pm
You have locked me out of my facebook account and wish you would contact me as soon as possible. Please contact me on my cell phone. 325-514-3609 or email at the above address. I would like a response. Thank You Barbara A. Standley

Comment by Barbara A Standley — August 5, 2010 @ 1:06 pm
THANK U! this was really helpful because being my age.. (i am one of the younger users), I had NO IDEA about any of this, one day i sign into my account to change my password 6 times in 10 minutes so that I can finally log in. I was hacked then denied entrance to fb. So when i finally figured out what was going on i was very grateful that there were articles such as this to help me fully understand my situation.

Comment by kiasiel — August 17, 2010 @ 7:20 am
I have been receiving messages from a guy who claims to be from Sweden. I let him become my friend so I could check out his page. The page us very new, with only beautiful women as friends. Only a few photos and very little info. Anyone had anything like this?

Comment by Sarah Lim — August 26, 2010 @ 12:39 am
thanks for remembering me

Comment by zorbari princess .s. — September 22, 2010 @ 2:15 pm
there IS more than one. You have bad grammar.

Comment by stfu — September 23, 2010 @ 4:56 pm
No, actually the correct usage is "there ARE more than one".

Hahaha!

Comment by Doofy — October 8, 2010 @ 4:29 am
This message below certainly sounds and have the signs of a scam – not so? Perhaps one of you received this via FB in your message box?
Marylyne Bulindacole October 13 at 10:11am Report
Now i shall send you a letter which you are going to send to my husband bank in West Africa and tell them that you are applying for the release of my fund into your bank account.i will also want you to send me your pics so i can use it to portrait on my sickbed.
As soon as i hear from you,i will now give you the bank details………And i will want you to promise me that you will make this wish accomplished.
I will want you to email me at, marylynebulindacole@yahoo.com or marylynebulindacole@hotmail.com
Bye for now and hope to read from you soon.
Thanks and God blessed
Marylyne Bulindacole…

Comment by Liz — October 13, 2010 @ 4:43 am
My Facebook account has been compromised somehow, and the Facebook Team has disabled my account because they think I have created a fake account. I don't even know how to do this. Why would I want to? I don't understand what has happened and they won't tell me. Can I ever get back on to Facebook?

Comment by Alice Jacobs — October 24, 2010 @ 8:59 am
i just got one of those "hey what are you doing in this video?" Then that page with the password showed up i logged in with the password then got outta my facebook and relogged in and it asked me to change my password and went through five steps.. it told me i should change all my other passwords on my other accounts.. is this true? or is it a scam to try and get into my accounts?

Comment by Brittany — October 29, 2010 @ 10:59 pm
LIKE THIS??Marylyne Bulindacole November 1 at 5:18pm Report
May the grace of the lord be with you and your family..I am Marylyne Bulindacole…A widow and a cancer patients…Am from Swiss but presently in Uk to receive treatment..My condition is deteriorating now..Due to my condition the doctors said i can live more than two months and when my husband was alive we colud not bear any child..After his death i inherited all he has.I am now willing to donate all i have to the less privileged and poor homes where i come from..If you are a Good and honest Person i will want you to help me contact my bank regarding the released of my fund to you…

I will want you to email me at, marylynebulindacole@yahoo.com or marylynebulindacole@hotmail.com So that i can tell you more about this .

Bye for now and hope to read from you soon.
Thanks and God blessed
Marylyne Bulindacole…

Comment by khryz — November 2, 2010 @ 5:11 am
Hi everyone.

As a facebook user i have come across a problem and may think its a scam. Ive had an email from FB saying my account is frozen due to a virus on a video link ive clicked on.

they say ive to follow the links to fix it, so ive been shown photos of friends to say that i know them, and then it says to download Mcafee.

Ive got norton installed on my computer and have ran a full system scan and everything is fine.

Has anyone had this issue before,

Thanks
Bob

Comment by Rab Duff — November 8, 2010 @ 9:19 pm
its a scam

Comment by sm104 — November 10, 2010 @ 9:11 am
It's a scam. If you comply, then your account will be hacked and stolen.

Comment by Jessica — November 10, 2010 @ 2:00 pm
this Koobface Worm is pissing me off -_- i keep getting pics of totaly nakid babes saying…."hello"…..
im so stupid as to click on that crap. i best start writing some complaints, but for others who try to open that stuff. the moment u do(if ur dunce ur tempted)

1) press Ctrl, ALT Delete and go on task maneger ASAP ASAP ASAP!!!!!!
2) closing the internet from there wont work since a popup will stop you. insteat close it buy going on
Iexplore(if using internet)
firefox(if firefox)
Crome(if crome)
and so on.
do this on PROCESSES!
the same thing could work for other scam sites like security tools and such.

Comment by Scammer killer -_- — November 10, 2010 @ 9:20 pm
My account just got deleted because it says that I am using a fake name. I am not and have had this facebook page for like 4 years. Now I have to send a government issued photo id in order to get my page back!!!! I am not happy. I would just get rid of it if there weren't so many pictures that I wanted. Is this true? Do I have to send my drivers license to them or is this a scam too? I can't get into my account at all……

Comment by Abbey — November 16, 2010 @ 1:13 pm
I just got the same message and almost fell for the scam. I reported her to Facebook.

Comment by Liz — November 18, 2010 @ 3:31 pm
Melodie
Hi and yes, just recently I recieved an email in my fb inbox, telling me I had won $300,000.00 US I emailed the address given to me, and they want 250 GBP (which equates to $404 Australian) for "very special courier" charges……… dont think so
Regards
Kylie

Comment by Kylie — November 23, 2010 @ 3:23 am
The same thing happened to me last night, but maybe even worse. It started with a FB chat where someone was pretending to be my friend and this "friend" was telling me that she won a bunch of $ and that she saw my name on the winner list and I should send an email immediately to claim my $. I'm not super techy and did not reply to the email–should I be worried? I'd really like to report the email to someone – anyone know where?

Comment by fran — November 30, 2010 @ 10:42 pm
Just FYI

The imposter stole my name and picture both after she tried to scam me in Facebook. She made a fake profile for making people thought it was me!! She claimed that she won over $850,000 from deafimperialinvest@americans.co.uk. Stay away from this deafimperialinvest@americans.co.uk!! She only looking for target deaf and hard of hearing people.

I did report to Facebook.

Comment by Deafrose — December 9, 2010 @ 6:59 pm
Minutes ago I got this. I know people that would fall for this. It's ashame.

Comment by Dianna — December 12, 2010 @ 5:47 pm
i´ve befriended a woman. She´s been asking me for money to travel to my home country. She wants me to wire her $800 out of $1200 and she wil get the rest from her bishop. She´s willing to give herself to me for life. She called me the other day and the phone number starts with 00234. After some digging
that´s the country code for Nigeria. Go figure.

Comment by Svavar — December 14, 2010 @ 3:34 am
What facebook end of year promos do you have at the moment.I've just received something from facebook saying that I've won money as part of an end of year promotion,I hope that it is authentic,as I have just replied to it,and also sent an e-mail.

Comment by Bernadette Vassallo — December 19, 2010 @ 1:47 pm
Errr what! I posted the previous comment two minutes ago..why does it say 23 hours ago?

Comment by Bernadette Vassallo — December 19, 2010 @ 1:48 pm
I'm sure that 'is' is correct in this instance. It all revolves around the 'one' the sentence. Please compare the folowing examples: 'There IS more than one way to skin a cat.' ' There ARE more than three chords.'

Comment by pupppu — December 19, 2010 @ 5:01 pm
A message from MARK'S LUCK
For security reasons and due to the mix-up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this notification strictly from public notice until your claim has beenprocessed and your money remitted. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by non-participants of this program.
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL HERE ON FACEBOOK.ALL YOU NEED DO IS CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT (Mark Scollon) HERE – facebookfiduciaryagent2010@gmail.com

Mark Zuckerberg
Founder/Facebook.com

Comment by KATHLEEN — December 19, 2010 @ 7:59 pm
Yes I did reply and yes (dumb me) I should have known..I have had various emails one included a so called scanned copy of my cheque. Then I received an email with the special courier prices..
These people need to be stopped!!!!
What can I do to stop this. Can I post these emails on facebook?
Will this help?

Comment by kathleen — December 19, 2010 @ 8:06 pm
Has anyone heard of Kelly Williams, purporting to have inherited a large sum of money, which can only be released, according to the last will, to her once she is married. She is not asking to get married but evidently her so called Lawyer has discovered a loop hole, which effectly is that the funds may be released to her via a male next of kin. Needless to say, she has no such next of kin and has approached me out of no where to undertake to be her next of kin, in which case if I provide my account details to the Lawyer, along with a number of very legal sounding docunments, which no doubt I will be asked to pay for, he will release a sizeable amount of monies to me. If this is not a scam the human race isn't greedy.

Comment by Rob — December 22, 2010 @ 6:58 am
I had a similar thing, I girl messagedme saying that she had met me on a night out in my town over a year ago, asked me questions about myself and the area and said that she was coming to do a naked swim for charity there soon. I looked her up and again it said 'he'. Getting suspicious I blocked her and then received amessage from her saying that my boyfriend had cheated on me with someone she worked with (big coincience since she was not from my area!) I guessd she/he was going to ask for sponsor money or somethng but I think this is totally odd.

Comment by Hayley — December 23, 2010 @ 9:17 am
I too am a bit weary of these type of scams, or is it wary? you really should get a literate person to proofread your stuff before you post if for the world to see. It makes your organization look cheesy..

Comment by Jimbo Reynolds — December 29, 2010 @ 7:59 pm
I thought I was helping a friend…….but was scammed out of $1000.00 plus $85.00 fees from Western Union. She started to chat with me and told me she was robbed at gun point and everything was stolen but her passport. I was so upset for her it didn't occur to me to ask verifying questions so I wired the money. Within minutes after the 'person' receiving the money I was asked for $640.00 more due to the exchange rate being so low that the initial wired money wasn't enough to pay the hotel bill 'she' had in London. I said no I can't afford it…..but it was already too late. Soon after that I tried to go to her wall and her account was not there – closed. It took me another 6 hours to actually talk to her and found out it was all a scam and I feel for it. I went to file a Police Report the next day and filed a fraud report with Western Union. Don't fall for it people like I did. Ask verifying questions if anyone of your friends is asking you to wire them money. I will no doubt never see my money again and have learned a very painful and discouraging lesson.

Comment by Judy — December 30, 2010 @ 7:32 pm
OMG – I was just scammed into sending money to my friend who was mugged in London!! Thank goodness I confirmed my friend's whereabouts in time and cancelled the Western Union! Wish I had seen this article earlier! Will share it with all my friends.

Comment by Cynthia — January 10, 2011 @ 6:10 am
This is a scam Maria. Don't ever trust him. If anything about transferring of money all these are bull shit. I nearly being caught into this kind of scam, however, I have to act smart. Be careful ok.

Comment by posse — January 18, 2011 @ 2:40 am
Help!!!! I been blocked out of my own Facebook page by someone and they erased some of my pictures and are chatting with my friends. I try to reset the password and they must of given another email address that the reset code gets sent to.

Comment by I. W. S. — January 18, 2011 @ 5:20 pm
i just got a post on my fb saying i won three hundred thousand dollars in the fb lottery and to contact mark scollon in london

Comment by annie — January 23, 2011 @ 12:27 am
two places to always be aware of, "Ghana and Nigeria" two of the biggest scam places in Africa….don't matter what the story all scams!!!oh and any were in the USSR and UK.

Comment by nutman — January 26, 2011 @ 1:50 am
How are u maam?

Comment by arlene guzman — January 28, 2011 @ 9:52 pm
Hi I just received an msg via facebook saying that I won some huge amount and to email the people. Oh well I did email them with just my name etc and than I got another email. Well I got an email from my hotmail account with a facebook certificate award for winning and that I will use that certificate when claiming for the winning fund. I also got an email from someone at Lloyds Pay Dept in London that has a yahoo address wanting me to pay for the DSL or something $850 US dollars for them to send me the Cashier's Check to a person in US that will do the certification. He had also sent me the scanned copy of the Cashier's check with my name on it……So confused that was all they asked nothing about bank details or anything……what do you think is this still a scam?

Comment by Andii — January 28, 2011 @ 11:37 pm
i got a friend request 2 months ago from someone i didn't know who went to the same school as me. I didn't remember him so rejected it. I was on line tonight and he popped a message up saying hi how are you. Don't actually know how he did this if we weren't friends!! I said i didn't know him and he said he knew that but had just 'added' me. I said why would you do that? and just said do you want me to delete you and so I said yes. I looked at this guys profile while he was messaging me and he looks quite strange and he doesn't have a single friend with own surname which i think is rather odd. ALL his friends were young females. He has now removed his photo and i can't view his friends as i was going to message one of them to ask if they knew him. I suspect he didin't go to my school and all those females don't know him at all. Its worrying me terribly he knows what i look like, what my children look like and the area i live in.

Comment by emma — January 30, 2011 @ 4:56 am
I received an email from Mark Zuckerberg saying that I won the facebook lottery win but this was sent to my hotmail email and not facebook.

Is this a scam or for real?

Comment by Andii — January 31, 2011 @ 12:20 am
I was contacted via Facebook by a "John Trundle" and also a person with the name of " Innocent " with nothing else but a 419 scam. How could facebook allow this to go on. Where do I report these people ?

Comment by Rhoda — January 31, 2011 @ 1:20 am
I just want to let everyone on facebook aware there is a new scammer in town…..Or should I say from maylaysa. Stating he works for Facebook and I have recently won Facebook Lottery of 350.000.00 and His name is Michael Mansion. He claims to be the man running the show and if I send him $750.00 western union in his name he can send my money within 82hrs. WTHE. Facebook I think you need to look into this because he is using your site to solicit innocent people and sad to say there are going to be people out there that are going to fall for this scam……..Please look into this and make this man pay for his crime he is trying to commit Thanx a concerned facebook patron.

Comment by Dawn Allen — February 3, 2011 @ 4:33 pm
I have stupidly completed the scam on the IQ quiz where I have received text messages saying that I have subscribed to therir weekly subscription for $10 pw and to reply STOP for this to end however it doesn't allow me to reply to the text. Any suggestions as to hw to stop this?

Comment by Lydia — February 4, 2011 @ 1:25 pm
William Reyna February 18 at 7:06am Report
We happily to announce to you that draw of FACE BOOK National Lottery all over the world online Sweepstakes International program held this month Of Feb. 2011. Have won u$ 55Million US dollars cash price) from the Worldwide Deaf and Hearing organization lottery draw 2011

Your profile on Face Book was one of the selected profile all over the world in the lottery draw and it comes out one of the 5 lucky winning from the deaf and hearing group on Face Book. For us to process your winning money you are advice to contact our judiciary agent with the details below for processing your fund.

Your winning Details;
Winning No: 12,18,37,40,46,47 C.48 R.7
BATCH No: CY/9456/EU
REFERENCE No:6778–786–0000

Please provide the following details for processing of your claimant paying .
1,FULL NAME :
2, FULL ADDRESS:
3, NATIONALITY:
4, SEX:
5, AGE:
6, PHONE/MOBIL
And let you know that you will need to Chat with our Agent Online on yahoo Ok so that they can let you know what to do next so that you winning money can get deliver to you Fast Ok………And please Let you know that you will need to be secret from now to ur self ok so that your winning money can get Deliver to you successfully Ok……So that you can have much money with you to take Good care of your Good Family Ok.

Comment by judy — February 18, 2011 @ 10:00 am
who do you report these scams to….i just had someone ask me to western union money to them…the big sob story, was robbed, etc.

Comment by Sandy — February 18, 2011 @ 11:21 am
need to send up the facebook from margate deaf shool from 1977 to1986

Comment by joseph dickson — February 22, 2011 @ 12:51 pm
I'm currently talking to a man claiming to be a Colonel with the US airforce. Now mind you the Colonel he claims to be exsists. He says he has a 11 year old son in the UK that lives with a Nanny. We have been chatting for 2 months. So far he has asked for nothing. But I don't believe him. I'm patiently waiting for the snag. I the mean time a few weeks ago I sent a package to the real Colonel and am awaiting a reply. I feel he needs to know this person is out there stealing his ID. And I don't want to scare the crafty person off on the mean time. I want them to get caught. Why don't I think it was him. Well he has boched a few things. Like talking about his friend the 5 star general. There are not any of 5 star generals in the USA and have not been for 50 + years. His FB profile picture is of a different colonel, not the one he claims to be. Wish me luck in getting this person or persons busted.

Comment by cagey — February 25, 2011 @ 7:25 pm
this is real

Comment by hhjj — February 27, 2011 @ 10:59 pm
From what i have read on here there are alot of scams on facebook.The best advice i can offer is if they ask for money or personal details its got to be a scam.I have found over the years if you type in a key word such as a name on google or go to fraudwatchers.com this will usually clear up the question "am i being scammed?.You should check out fraudwatches reguardless you would not believe the extent these people go to it really opens your eyes to the world in which we live in.

Comment by shezza — February 28, 2011 @ 3:43 am
i just had the same thing and was sent all the details, serial, regerstration nums etc. looked totally legit until they asked me to send money through the western union. She then then got v ticked when she found out we dont have western union in waterford, ireland. so i rang the us embessy and passed on the info to some sort of fuard preson. (sorry about the spellings). And i found out about it through some 'Friend' of facebook. when i went to her page there was nothing there, just a list of people she had friended

Comment by fiona — March 2, 2011 @ 9:15 am
no its not, they pay people to watch these website and tell people there real. us embessy say there not

Comment by fiona — March 2, 2011 @ 9:17 am
i keep getting atrraective women adding me then they always want my yahoo addy any ideas why?

Comment by david — March 8, 2011 @ 12:41 pm
same here, melody, they used my friend's names and it pisses me off because the imposters not only use there names for scams, they stole there identidy, they, also ruin there facebook friends trust and end up losing them.

Comment by justiun ridling — March 12, 2011 @ 4:45 am
Ive received an email from facebook team Susan Hatcher congratulating me on facebook cash splash promo , and i have ben selected as 1 of 15 lucky winners …please help since in a quick decision i relied to the email tonybrowne@gmail.com and forwarded my mobile number …have i messed up , please help

Comment by Shamiema Ismail — March 12, 2011 @ 7:45 am
Please i need urgent help, i received this email stating that i am one of 17 winners From International Promotions Program which is conducted BIA- annually by Mark Zuckerberg… is this true i must pay money via Western union to an attorney

Comment by Sonya — March 22, 2011 @ 5:55 am
This scam is still ongoing, my niece was approached using this format this very evening, when I contacted the unscrupulous swearword by messenger and confronted him, he immediately went offline. Needless to say his details have been passed on to relevant organisations for further investigation.
He befriended by claiming to be a Christian family man, and also claimed he was an agent of the DHHC.

Comment by technophil — March 22, 2011 @ 8:28 pm
Hi People, I received and email from facebook :
Kate Williams March 22 at 1:51am Report
From Face book Promotion Team
Your http://www.facebook.com user name/profile has won the sum of £500,000 Pounds Sterling in the ongoing face book promotion, for claim email: teamfacebook@w.cn with your.

Full name:
Address:
Tel (Mobile, office and home):
Nationality:
Email Address:
Age:
Occupation:
Sex:

Regards,
Face book Claims Manager
Anderson Maxwell
E-mail: teamfacebook@w.cn
©2011 Face book Team Promotion

Comment by Saj — March 23, 2011 @ 8:20 am
What scam is the 'Facebook INTERNATIONAL AWARD CERTIFICATE".
Do they work from the Uk or Thailand?
What do they hope to gain?
Can anyone shed some light on this topic. ?

Comment by Liz — March 24, 2011 @ 1:09 am
I recieved this email:
FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGEMENT OFFICE
FACEBOOK ANNIVERSARY PROMOTION
REFL2/209318/09
BATCH:18/103/HME.

CONGRATULATIONS

We happily announce to you the draw of the FACEBOOK SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTION, at our Lotto Draw Headquarters London, United Kingdom organized by FACEBOOK. This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of ?530,000.00GBP (Five Hundred And Thirty Thousand Great British Pounds)

FACEBOOK Promo Inc. arranged and gathered some of all the E-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to all E-mail Providers most especially Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail, we only selected Twenty (20) candidates per-annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without the candid. For claims contact the claims office email

All reply should be sent to the Promotion Office Email:
facebook_verification@live.com

Dr. John Kennedy.
PROMOTION OFFICER
Tele:+44-7045-739-928

Facebook ? 2011

You have 13 new notifications. Visit Facebook now to see what's happening with your friends.

Comment by Judy McAnally — April 1, 2011 @ 9:19 am
someone mailed me and told me that i won some amount of $150.000USD..is it true that face book lottery promo is real?

Comment by caroline — April 8, 2011 @ 11:57 am
I know how to protect myself on Facebook, just warning all of you!
Update your privacy settings! Helpful article!

Comment by Diana Ulpolsa Portola — April 20, 2011 @ 10:32 pm
I got an email from the Facebook Abuse Department (Edward@Facebook.com) with a zip file. You should warn people about emails like this too:

Dear Customer.
Spam is sent from your FaceBook account.
Your password has been changed for safety.
Information regarding your account and a new password is attached to the letter.
Read this information thoroughly and change the password to complicated one.
Thank you for your attention.
FaceBook Service.

Comment by atterol — May 2, 2011 @ 7:09 pm
Deaf World Help Organization – wants my name and phone number for me to win a lottery / gift of $300000.00 I have to send them $550.00. Should I believe this

Comment by Fergie1957 — May 4, 2011 @ 12:25 pm
I have been chatting with three men on are you interested and the funny thing is that they all have lost there wife and are raising one kid alone. I think they are scammer con artist too….

Comment by Tammy — May 13, 2011 @ 1:44 pm
I was told about this today and directed to contact "Agent Ralph Olasco, Jr." via Facebook to get my money. My friend paid $3,000 to have her $100,000 in cash delivered to her by UPS. She did get her money and insists that he is a real and honest person and this is not a scam. She is pressing me to trust her and go for it. I contacted him via FB, he immediately accepted my friend request & sent me an IM telling me I was chosen to win $150,000. was I ready to claim my money? My husband encouraged me to check it out and that it was a scam so i told him we were going to pass. He immediately got off line. His FB says he lives in Maine and works for some electric company as a mechanic. BE WARE PEOPLE!

Comment by Kim Mynatt — May 15, 2011 @ 9:33 pm
A random guy (Gary Stanley) sent me a message complimenting me and my family. I dont know who the guy is. He says he was looking for his wife's friend on facebook to add and came across my profile. My profile is on private. I went to check out his profile and check out his friends, he has two friends listed as Gary Stanley also (which I think is a little odd). Not sure if it's a scam or what but I will not be replying back to the message. Anyone experience something like this?

Comment by Mre A — May 20, 2011 @ 2:33 am
this has happened to me several times and yes it is a scam. don't reply to anything like that on fb or anywhere for that matter. If you didn't enter a contest then you are not the winner.there are so many scams on fb it is very important that you don't fall for the crazy links etc. Contact fb if anything like that happens again and change your password. You may even cancel the account and start another with a different email. Thing is if you get a worm it damages the pc. Not just fb.

Comment by dot — May 22, 2011 @ 11:47 pm
I had one pop up who was" Widowed", and claims he came across my profile while looking for a friend. I do not believe it, and I think it is all a scam too. My profile is private. He has no friends, and a very sparse profile .Please be careful

Comment by Maia — May 26, 2011 @ 7:02 pm
Yes, I had a very similiar experience. My profile is private, and this person claims to have found my profile while looking for a friend. Ido not believe it at all, and also think it is a scam

Comment by maia — May 26, 2011 @ 7:05 pm
Some other girl is on it… Sandra Mary Smith.. she's stuck at a hotel in Nigeria and the manager wont let go off her documents to return to the states except she pays off her pending bills $500…. she is expecting my payment soon…

Comment by Jkings — June 6, 2011 @ 1:30 pm
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1000019855... thats her profile… i am purposely keeping in touch with her as the guy from the States in other to certify her Scam and she apperently told different stories to different people including my friend so she's SCAM and impersonating because the picture isnt heres too.

Comment by JkingsJason — June 6, 2011 @ 1:33 pm
I re ceived an email that looked like it was from my sister and it had her Facebook picture. It said click here to see what she posted on my wall…but it took me to something called "Questions" and asked me to answer 5 questions about my FB friends in order to see what was on my Wall. I can't believe I fell for this phishing crap. It gave access to my FB and my friends. The questions were stupid, but they ended up looking like they were from me. Please FB, tell me thiswas just a harmless joke…

Comment by Melissa — June 14, 2011 @ 12:40 am
Having a company Facebook page, this is some very useful information to know.

Comment by GPS Tracking System — June 18, 2011 @ 9:36 pm
i got a friend request from a total stranger saying i need to talk to you about your husband,. i accepted her and there is no picture and i am her only friend. there is a birth date and email and nothing else. is this a scam

Comment by renny — June 20, 2011 @ 11:03 pm
Latest facebook scams i look here http://facebookscamlist.com/

Comment by Endi — June 22, 2011 @ 7:02 am
i just got a message from an Ina Johnson,teling me i had won $75,000,000, from the worldwide deaf and hearing lottery, asking me for my name,d.o.b,address,mobile number,etc,i sent a msg back to her saying i dont recall entering ANY lottery, (exept the UK's National lottery,run by the lottery comission),i then marked the msg as spam to facebook,have i fallen victim just cos i replied,even though i have NOT entered ANY of my personal details??

Comment by Mick T — June 24, 2011 @ 11:57 pm
i also got contacted by a friend, at least they said they were, about this and told me to contact a ralph olasco jr to get my winnings. This is a huge scam and I hope they get caught. I contacted my friend immediatly and told her.

Comment by Linda — June 25, 2011 @ 1:07 am
give home deaf gob poor for is a Bangladesh
+8801745010878 MD:junaid arif $100000
one you the dou come

Comment by Rony Junaid — July 4, 2011 @ 6:59 am
I was always told if it sounds to good to be true….IT probably is.

Comment by debbie — July 14, 2011 @ 7:56 am
thats too funny its happening to me right now. said i need to western union 2000.00 to get 150,000 asked me questions. the person that sent me the mess through fb i know her and she wouldnt do this

Comment by Maya Oliver — July 16, 2011 @ 2:53 pm
Hey,

There are many ways people are fooling facbeook users, just don't give money, financial information to facebook at all.

Comment by Imran — August 10, 2011 @ 5:40 am
Saw this one going around lately…scam or not?

PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS NOTICE TO ALL YOUR CONTACTS! In the coming days, you should be aware, Do not open any messages with an attachment called: INVITATION FACEBOOK, regardless of who sent it. It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch that burns the whole hard disc C of your computer. This virus will be received from someone you had in your address book. If you receive a mail called: INVITATION FACEBOOK, though sent by a friend. DO NOT OPEN IT and Delete it… Post this on your wall please

Comment by Nanci Rollins — August 25, 2011 @ 8:30 pm
Check this out FB Scam. I’ve found the same problem. I’ve got the solution and written on my blog. May be helpful to you. and share with other people so they can get rid of it.
http://www.ankitpatel.info/2011/09/free-facebook-...

Comment by Ankit — September 14, 2011 @ 5:09 am
I had a scam artist posing as Lt. Col. Ben Jackman stationed in Delfur, Sedan wanting me to file for his release and fill out his retirement papers. I filed for his release and then there was huge fee of $2000.00 to pay for one week in Usa and it would be refunded as soon as he arrived in USA. They started demanding the fee and I told them I needed to cancel the process.

Comment by Guest — September 18, 2011 @ 11:49 pm
There is something going around facebook friends about facebook charging unless you copy & paste a particular message and then your page will turn blue and you won't be charged…where is this coming from ..it sounds fake

Comment by Kimbell — September 25, 2011 @ 4:44 pm
Worst part about the scams maybe not the scam itself, but the lack of the FB user to get ahold of FB in any manner whatsoever to help get back into account. Customer service nightmare.

Comment by Steve Cooper — October 10, 2011 @ 9:49 am
ALL games on Facebook.com are a way for Hackers to rob you of your info….1st: make a very long password, mine is 32 letters long, keep a record of it….2n: never put your correct birthday, city or town in which you are born…3;…don't play those stupid games…it changes your security to 'http'..from..'https'….if it happens, log out, then log back in……NOW AS FOR THE FLIPPING PICS, YOUR SITE NEVER STAYS STILL, I HAVE TO ANSWERS FOR THAT…..ANYONE THAT DOES, CAN CONTACT ME AT : GaryLogan@Facebook.com, or gary.lee.logan@hotmail.com…just mention that you saw my comment on what hackers do on facebook.com…..thanks!!

Comment by Gary Logan — October 10, 2011 @ 12:01 pm
Dear Retards,

In case you are too mentally deranged to figure it out for yourself… anytime anyone wants to give you $$$ for free over the internet…IT IS A SCAM!!!!! anytime someone you have never met asks you for $$$$ over the internet…IT IS A SCAM!!!! I can't believe that there are people who are gullible enough to fall for these stupid scams. But, I guess there must be plenty of dummies out there, otherwise there wouldn't be so many scammers

Comment by Oscar — October 24, 2011 @ 1:20 pm
don't do it. gary is a scammer

Comment by Oscar — October 24, 2011 @ 1:38 pm
my friend told me that she won 50 thousand US dollars and she saw my name too… it says to colplete the transaction i have fill the application form and send 60 dollars for administrative fee

so is this a scam?

Comment by ricky — November 28, 2011 @ 1:14 pm
do army personal really have a facebook curtis scapparrotti says he s in afganistan chatted online for about a month and now asked me to marry him wants to know me better i did block him on facebook msn and made a report to facebook….will i be safe from this now or is there some thing else i need to do like restart my facebook acct. or is the the real man…..

Comment by beatrice — December 3, 2011 @ 3:58 pm
There is a guy on FB that befriended me, at that time he was very nice and such a gentleman, we messaged each other everyday and we spoke on the phone daily. He ssid he was in the UK, name was Elgin Gonzalez., had a daughter named Mary that was 13yrs. old, mother had passed away and the child lived in Ohio with his mother. He told me was traveling to Nigeria on business and will keep his phone on roaming so we can talk. One morning he called saying he had been robbed of his passport and all his money and wanted to leave that place and come back home to the US. He wanted me to speak to the policeman, soon as this so called policeman started to speak, I knew it to be his own voice, just muffled. Then Elgin got back on the phone and asked if I could send his $2500 and he would pay me back soon as he came to me. I started looking at his photographes and enlarging them to read the photographer's name, while searching..I found the pictures of him to be those of the actor named Kyle Olsen that lives in Austria. I contacted FB and they deleted his pages, but he came right back with more. Another woman he had on his freinds list I remembered her name and contacted her, he was trying the same thing with her. He prays on women and gets them to fall for him. I sent him the link of Kyle Olsen in his messenger saying I know the truth, next thing I know, he was using the name of Kyle Olsen, changed that he lived in Austria. FB has removed him again but he is still out there with another name. He is really a Nigerian and plays his role very well..Beware of any man using Kyle Olsen's picture.

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Comment by June Green — January 5, 2010 @ 6:48 am

Thanks for that

Comment by Rasak — January 5, 2010 @ 7:30 am

always be *wary* (not weary)

there are more than one typo/misspelled/bad grammar errors in this article. please proofread. Errors make the article look spammy.

Comment by PamelaJaye — January 5, 2010 @ 7:44 am

Vrey nice post, I have replicated it in my wall for my friends to read it, thank you!!

Comment by Rodolfo Salazar — January 5, 2010 @ 10:03 am

Great post. Thanks for keeping your eyes open for these scams.

Comment by Jarrett Gucci — January 5, 2010 @ 10:12 am

June, Empty your cookie folder, that should help.

Comment by Mo Ford Mulligan — January 5, 2010 @ 11:12 am

won’t stay still

Comment by June Green — January 5, 2010 @ 10:49 am

Thanks for the information. Good to know.We all need to be very careful.. Thank You.

Comment by Barbara Anderson — January 5, 2010 @ 1:16 pm

I am always wary of most facebook applications as I had a long conversation with someone from McCafee at a conference telling me how most viruses are downloaded through facebook quizzes and games. Saying that they are excellent tools for procrastination!

Thanks for highlighting the main villains as I get paranoid thinking they are all evil when many are just clever social media tools

Comment by Seobelle — January 6, 2010 @ 3:00 am

Thanks… And keep us updtaed! I have had some problems with F/B. And, trying to beware of anything that may look different. I Love F/B!!! But, u will "Have" bad people all over doing ugly things.

Comment by Christina Novak — January 6, 2010 @ 4:48 am

Thanks for the information! What about the zoo application and SSP?

Comment by Marilyn Fisher — January 6, 2010 @ 4:46 pm

Thanks for the info. And yes, keep us updated please!

Comment by Irena — January 19, 2010 @ 11:57 am

I got scammed money to someone who posed as friend.

Comment by Steve Wright — February 16, 2010 @ 10:12 am

Is this a scam? I got a message from a woman in my facebook email. She said she is coming through my town and wondered if I could tell her points of interest in the area. She said she found me by searching people who know my town "XXXX", MA. Well I tried it and it is true, you can find me easily linked to my town. That's not my issue though. After writing back to her, even though I sure her picture was not real (looks porn star-ish–but not quite–just over the top sexy)I took another look at her profile. Well She is listed as being a He. What is up with this? I thought it was odd to begin with, and now I find out that it's a man. What possible angle could there be?

Joanne

Comment by jo — February 25, 2010 @ 5:21 am

Many thanks-not easily attracted to anything unusual on FB,but good to get the info.

Comment by Frances Heneghan — March 3, 2010 @ 7:08 am

I’ve had friend requests from women I don’t know, in both cases the pics were of attractive women yet there profile showed very few friends…something not right about it, that or I’m passing on some good looking friends.

Comment by Dave P. — March 3, 2010 @ 3:57 pm

I just had an email from facebook deaf promo telling me i was chosen for a prize of $50,000 us. But i had to send them $500 us in order for them to send me my prize. Just wondering if anyone has had the same thing happen to them?

Comment by melodie — March 22, 2010 @ 2:58 pm

A friend has "fanned" two pages that look fishy to me, but I don't want to click through for fear of messing up my own system. One is "This has to be the SADDEST status update ever! I cried when i read it.. =( If you thought this was SAD, Please press the LIKE button,, Thanks" and the other is "HIS IS THE WORST, SICKEST WALL POST EVER IN FACEBOOOOK!!!". Once you "Fan" the page, it points to another website. Does anyone know what the nature of these sites are?

Comment by gobsmack — March 30, 2010 @ 9:37 am

Melodie, Yes, I received the email message below –

THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING COMMISSION.

Hello,i am XXXXXX XXXXXX.i am the secretary of deaf and hard of hearing commission(DHHC).DHHC is a charity organisation that help deaf and hard of hearing.DHHC is in collaboration with FACEBOOK company by selecting all the email addresses of people that are active online,among the millions that subscribed to FACEBOOK we only select THREE people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,and your screen name has won you the sum of $100,000.00. we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.to claim your money get back to me on XXXXXXXX@yahoo.com. This is a scam, why would a charity be giving out money….

Comment by 2bambinos — March 31, 2010 @ 10:59 am

I hate it when PEOPLE send you a scam, thank you !!

Comment by mLtoo — April 4, 2010 @ 8:42 am

this scam just developped last week.A guy Kiven Williams from london Uk,befriended me for many many weeks we messaged each other ..he said he was a devote christian, widower, raising his only son Tom…he was very encougaring and christian like he played the son to sound cute, worry u with his son taken in hospital….he played on a emotional level and making u feel for him…Parents died in a house fire when he was 8, wife die of a cancer 5 years ago. He present himself as a business man who has to travel once a month leaving his son with a nanny…his desire is to find one day a virtous women…ect.story short…he goes to Ghana on business taking his son… In Ghana he has problem and need to go to Nigeria…he promissed to give new in the next 9 to 10 hous…4 days later he message that he has been embushed rob at gun point …he is severely hurt and tom his son is in a coma for the last X DAYS AND HE IS NOT ALLOWED TO SEE HIM…HE IS IN GREAT PAIN…HE THEN INVITE ME TO GO ON MSN to chat…story short he need 750 US $ and play the lost and hopless..no insurance on visa…no medical travel insurance…I must not call the ambassy ( UK) cuz they will take his son away from him cuz they will not understand why I took the kid with….all emotionnal you feel devastated…he even say that u are the only person who can help him…please I give u back the money ..IF NECCESARY…what…of course it would be a must…so ALERT AS MANY MIDDLE AGE WOMEN THIS GUY IS PROWLING AROUND…

Comment by Maria Fiorenza-Marol — April 9, 2010 @ 10:24 pm

Has anyone had a bad experience from those web designers on facebook? I've probably been scammed by one of them- she asked for the money upfront to do a webpage for me- told me she's supporting her dear elderly parents, blah blah- then after she got the payment, she disappeared. From what the fraud squad told me, sounds like the work of the Nigerian ring.

Comment by ann — April 29, 2010 @ 6:16 pm

hi i was asked to give out personal information to obtain 50 thousand dollars and that the ceo of facebook picked my name to be awarded through deafpromo…i know this is a scam, is it?

Comment by anne kellner — May 19, 2010 @ 6:28 am

my cell # is not on my facebook page yet I recieved a msg on my cell from a local cell # saying "poke"…asked ? and got a msg saying it is a facebook thingy and it likes to say hi…anyone come across something like this? my cell # isnt listed anywhere…thinking someone is pranking me and not a scam..not sure

Comment by Tito — June 2, 2010 @ 7:22 am

I had a message from a Mazad Adable stating that he has recieved order from a mr Dr.JOHN KOFI to transfer $2000000 usd in 5000 installments to my account on the email it says to contact him on a bt internet email adress and is 'signed' at the bottom Mr Johnson Chijioke

they state that they need me to contact them to give them tax clearance to do so Is this just a scam?

Comment by Nathan Dibley — June 9, 2010 @ 12:43 am

Maria Fiorenza

I am a victim also and I am sure when I read your story that I am a victim off the same gang. UK – devoted christian – orphanage – wife and children death in a carcrash – I am a smart socially engaded woman and I am really ashamed to walk in the trap of these evil persons.I read a lot off simular stories and I would be very glad if you drop be a message on my facebook. I am pretending since a week that I do not know the truth yet. I lost the 950 dollars, that will be a lesson for the rest of my life, but badder than all the money, I am feeling violated in my innerme. I am living in your country off birth.

Comment by Chris Cache — June 9, 2010 @ 8:26 am

watch out for online dating sluts two of them tried to hit me for cash ghana i did not buy in to it im no sucker

Comment by frank grebely — June 13, 2010 @ 10:44 pm

I was just sent a message telling me that I was selected by a computer ballot system for an ongoing lottery. I was told I had won 800 000 pounds. but before they could get the courts to process anything, i had to pay for the legal services…

anyway I asked one of their contacts if we could do a deal by him paying the legal proceedings; and when all goes fine i will reimberse the legal fee plus give him 5% of the prize.

I am still waiting for his reply…HAHAH!

Comment by Graeme — July 5, 2010 @ 2:35 pm

You have locked me out of my facebook account and wish you would contact me as soon as possible. Please contact me on my cell phone. 325-514-3609 or email at the above address. I would like a response. Thank You Barbara A. Standley

Comment by Barbara A Standley — August 5, 2010 @ 1:06 pm

THANK U! this was really helpful because being my age.. (i am one of the younger users), I had NO IDEA about any of this, one day i sign into my account to change my password 6 times in 10 minutes so that I can finally log in. I was hacked then denied entrance to fb. So when i finally figured out what was going on i was very grateful that there were articles such as this to help me fully understand my situation.

Comment by kiasiel — August 17, 2010 @ 7:20 am

I have been receiving messages from a guy who claims to be from Sweden. I let him become my friend so I could check out his page. The page us very new, with only beautiful women as friends. Only a few photos and very little info. Anyone had anything like this?

Comment by Sarah Lim — August 26, 2010 @ 12:39 am

thanks for remembering me

Comment by zorbari princess .s. — September 22, 2010 @ 2:15 pm

there IS more than one. You have bad grammar.

Comment by stfu — September 23, 2010 @ 4:56 pm

No, actually the correct usage is "there ARE more than one".

Hahaha!

Comment by Doofy — October 8, 2010 @ 4:29 am

This message below certainly sounds and have the signs of a scam – not so? Perhaps one of you received this via FB in your message box?
Marylyne Bulindacole October 13 at 10:11am Report
Now i shall send you a letter which you are going to send to my husband bank in West Africa and tell them that you are applying for the release of my fund into your bank account.i will also want you to send me your pics so i can use it to portrait on my sickbed.
As soon as i hear from you,i will now give you the bank details………And i will want you to promise me that you will make this wish accomplished.
I will want you to email me at, marylynebulindacole@yahoo.com or marylynebulindacole@hotmail.com
Bye for now and hope to read from you soon.
Thanks and God blessed
Marylyne Bulindacole…

Comment by Liz — October 13, 2010 @ 4:43 am

My Facebook account has been compromised somehow, and the Facebook Team has disabled my account because they think I have created a fake account. I don't even know how to do this. Why would I want to? I don't understand what has happened and they won't tell me. Can I ever get back on to Facebook?

Comment by Alice Jacobs — October 24, 2010 @ 8:59 am

i just got one of those "hey what are you doing in this video?" Then that page with the password showed up i logged in with the password then got outta my facebook and relogged in and it asked me to change my password and went through five steps.. it told me i should change all my other passwords on my other accounts.. is this true? or is it a scam to try and get into my accounts?

Comment by Brittany — October 29, 2010 @ 10:59 pm

LIKE THIS??Marylyne Bulindacole November 1 at 5:18pm Report
May the grace of the lord be with you and your family..I am Marylyne Bulindacole…A widow and a cancer patients…Am from Swiss but presently in Uk to receive treatment..My condition is deteriorating now..Due to my condition the doctors said i can live more than two months and when my husband was alive we colud not bear any child..After his death i inherited all he has.I am now willing to donate all i have to the less privileged and poor homes where i come from..If you are a Good and honest Person i will want you to help me contact my bank regarding the released of my fund to you…

I will want you to email me at, marylynebulindacole@yahoo.com or marylynebulindacole@hotmail.com So that i can tell you more about this .

Bye for now and hope to read from you soon.
Thanks and God blessed
Marylyne Bulindacole…

Comment by khryz — November 2, 2010 @ 5:11 am

Hi everyone.

As a facebook user i have come across a problem and may think its a scam. Ive had an email from FB saying my account is frozen due to a virus on a video link ive clicked on.

they say ive to follow the links to fix it, so ive been shown photos of friends to say that i know them, and then it says to download Mcafee.

Ive got norton installed on my computer and have ran a full system scan and everything is fine.

Has anyone had this issue before,

Thanks
Bob

Comment by Rab Duff — November 8, 2010 @ 9:19 pm

its a scam

Comment by sm104 — November 10, 2010 @ 9:11 am

It's a scam. If you comply, then your account will be hacked and stolen.

Comment by Jessica — November 10, 2010 @ 2:00 pm

this Koobface Worm is pissing me off -_- i keep getting pics of totaly nakid babes saying…."hello"…..
im so stupid as to click on that crap. i best start writing some complaints, but for others who try to open that stuff. the moment u do(if ur dunce ur tempted)

1) press Ctrl, ALT Delete and go on task maneger ASAP ASAP ASAP!!!!!!
2) closing the internet from there wont work since a popup will stop you. insteat close it buy going on
Iexplore(if using internet)
firefox(if firefox)
Crome(if crome)
and so on.
do this on PROCESSES!
the same thing could work for other scam sites like security tools and such.

Comment by Scammer killer -_- — November 10, 2010 @ 9:20 pm

My account just got deleted because it says that I am using a fake name. I am not and have had this facebook page for like 4 years. Now I have to send a government issued photo id in order to get my page back!!!! I am not happy. I would just get rid of it if there weren't so many pictures that I wanted. Is this true? Do I have to send my drivers license to them or is this a scam too? I can't get into my account at all……

Comment by Abbey — November 16, 2010 @ 1:13 pm

I just got the same message and almost fell for the scam. I reported her to Facebook.

Comment by Liz — November 18, 2010 @ 3:31 pm

Melodie
Hi and yes, just recently I recieved an email in my fb inbox, telling me I had won $300,000.00 US I emailed the address given to me, and they want 250 GBP (which equates to $404 Australian) for "very special courier" charges……… dont think so
Regards
Kylie

Comment by Kylie — November 23, 2010 @ 3:23 am

The same thing happened to me last night, but maybe even worse. It started with a FB chat where someone was pretending to be my friend and this "friend" was telling me that she won a bunch of $ and that she saw my name on the winner list and I should send an email immediately to claim my $. I'm not super techy and did not reply to the email–should I be worried? I'd really like to report the email to someone – anyone know where?

Comment by fran — November 30, 2010 @ 10:42 pm

Just FYI

The imposter stole my name and picture both after she tried to scam me in Facebook. She made a fake profile for making people thought it was me!! She claimed that she won over $850,000 from deafimperialinvest@americans.co.uk. Stay away from this deafimperialinvest@americans.co.uk!! She only looking for target deaf and hard of hearing people.

I did report to Facebook.

Comment by Deafrose — December 9, 2010 @ 6:59 pm

Minutes ago I got this. I know people that would fall for this. It's ashame.

Comment by Dianna — December 12, 2010 @ 5:47 pm

i´ve befriended a woman. She´s been asking me for money to travel to my home country. She wants me to wire her $800 out of $1200 and she wil get the rest from her bishop. She´s willing to give herself to me for life. She called me the other day and the phone number starts with 00234. After some digging
that´s the country code for Nigeria. Go figure.

Comment by Svavar — December 14, 2010 @ 3:34 am

What facebook end of year promos do you have at the moment.I've just received something from facebook saying that I've won money as part of an end of year promotion,I hope that it is authentic,as I have just replied to it,and also sent an e-mail.

Comment by Bernadette Vassallo — December 19, 2010 @ 1:47 pm

Errr what! I posted the previous comment two minutes ago..why does it say 23 hours ago?

Comment by Bernadette Vassallo — December 19, 2010 @ 1:48 pm

I'm sure that 'is' is correct in this instance. It all revolves around the 'one' the sentence. Please compare the folowing examples: 'There IS more than one way to skin a cat.' ' There ARE more than three chords.'

Comment by pupppu — December 19, 2010 @ 5:01 pm

A message from MARK'S LUCK
For security reasons and due to the mix-up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this notification strictly from public notice until your claim has beenprocessed and your money remitted. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by non-participants of this program.
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL HERE ON FACEBOOK.ALL YOU NEED DO IS CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT (Mark Scollon) HERE – facebookfiduciaryagent2010@gmail.com

Mark Zuckerberg
Founder/Facebook.com

Comment by KATHLEEN — December 19, 2010 @ 7:59 pm

Yes I did reply and yes (dumb me) I should have known..I have had various emails one included a so called scanned copy of my cheque. Then I received an email with the special courier prices..
These people need to be stopped!!!!
What can I do to stop this. Can I post these emails on facebook?
Will this help?

Comment by kathleen — December 19, 2010 @ 8:06 pm

Has anyone heard of Kelly Williams, purporting to have inherited a large sum of money, which can only be released, according to the last will, to her once she is married. She is not asking to get married but evidently her so called Lawyer has discovered a loop hole, which effectly is that the funds may be released to her via a male next of kin. Needless to say, she has no such next of kin and has approached me out of no where to undertake to be her next of kin, in which case if I provide my account details to the Lawyer, along with a number of very legal sounding docunments, which no doubt I will be asked to pay for, he will release a sizeable amount of monies to me. If this is not a scam the human race isn't greedy.

Comment by Rob — December 22, 2010 @ 6:58 am

I had a similar thing, I girl messagedme saying that she had met me on a night out in my town over a year ago, asked me questions about myself and the area and said that she was coming to do a naked swim for charity there soon. I looked her up and again it said 'he'. Getting suspicious I blocked her and then received amessage from her saying that my boyfriend had cheated on me with someone she worked with (big coincience since she was not from my area!) I guessd she/he was going to ask for sponsor money or somethng but I think this is totally odd.

Comment by Hayley — December 23, 2010 @ 9:17 am

I too am a bit weary of these type of scams, or is it wary? you really should get a literate person to proofread your stuff before you post if for the world to see. It makes your organization look cheesy..

Comment by Jimbo Reynolds — December 29, 2010 @ 7:59 pm

I thought I was helping a friend…….but was scammed out of $1000.00 plus $85.00 fees from Western Union. She started to chat with me and told me she was robbed at gun point and everything was stolen but her passport. I was so upset for her it didn't occur to me to ask verifying questions so I wired the money. Within minutes after the 'person' receiving the money I was asked for $640.00 more due to the exchange rate being so low that the initial wired money wasn't enough to pay the hotel bill 'she' had in London. I said no I can't afford it…..but it was already too late. Soon after that I tried to go to her wall and her account was not there – closed. It took me another 6 hours to actually talk to her and found out it was all a scam and I feel for it. I went to file a Police Report the next day and filed a fraud report with Western Union. Don't fall for it people like I did. Ask verifying questions if anyone of your friends is asking you to wire them money. I will no doubt never see my money again and have learned a very painful and discouraging lesson.

Comment by Judy — December 30, 2010 @ 7:32 pm

OMG – I was just scammed into sending money to my friend who was mugged in London!! Thank goodness I confirmed my friend's whereabouts in time and cancelled the Western Union! Wish I had seen this article earlier! Will share it with all my friends.

Comment by Cynthia — January 10, 2011 @ 6:10 am

This is a scam Maria. Don't ever trust him. If anything about transferring of money all these are bull shit. I nearly being caught into this kind of scam, however, I have to act smart. Be careful ok.

Comment by posse — January 18, 2011 @ 2:40 am

Help!!!! I been blocked out of my own Facebook page by someone and they erased some of my pictures and are chatting with my friends. I try to reset the password and they must of given another email address that the reset code gets sent to.

Comment by I. W. S. — January 18, 2011 @ 5:20 pm

i just got a post on my fb saying i won three hundred thousand dollars in the fb lottery and to contact mark scollon in london

Comment by annie — January 23, 2011 @ 12:27 am

two places to always be aware of, "Ghana and Nigeria" two of the biggest scam places in Africa….don't matter what the story all scams!!!oh and any were in the USSR and UK.

Comment by nutman — January 26, 2011 @ 1:50 am

How are u maam?

Comment by arlene guzman — January 28, 2011 @ 9:52 pm

Hi I just received an msg via facebook saying that I won some huge amount and to email the people. Oh well I did email them with just my name etc and than I got another email. Well I got an email from my hotmail account with a facebook certificate award for winning and that I will use that certificate when claiming for the winning fund. I also got an email from someone at Lloyds Pay Dept in London that has a yahoo address wanting me to pay for the DSL or something $850 US dollars for them to send me the Cashier's Check to a person in US that will do the certification. He had also sent me the scanned copy of the Cashier's check with my name on it……So confused that was all they asked nothing about bank details or anything……what do you think is this still a scam?

Comment by Andii — January 28, 2011 @ 11:37 pm

i got a friend request 2 months ago from someone i didn't know who went to the same school as me. I didn't remember him so rejected it. I was on line tonight and he popped a message up saying hi how are you. Don't actually know how he did this if we weren't friends!! I said i didn't know him and he said he knew that but had just 'added' me. I said why would you do that? and just said do you want me to delete you and so I said yes. I looked at this guys profile while he was messaging me and he looks quite strange and he doesn't have a single friend with own surname which i think is rather odd. ALL his friends were young females. He has now removed his photo and i can't view his friends as i was going to message one of them to ask if they knew him. I suspect he didin't go to my school and all those females don't know him at all. Its worrying me terribly he knows what i look like, what my children look like and the area i live in.

Comment by emma — January 30, 2011 @ 4:56 am

I received an email from Mark Zuckerberg saying that I won the facebook lottery win but this was sent to my hotmail email and not facebook.

Is this a scam or for real?

Comment by Andii — January 31, 2011 @ 12:20 am

I was contacted via Facebook by a "John Trundle" and also a person with the name of " Innocent " with nothing else but a 419 scam. How could facebook allow this to go on. Where do I report these people ?

Comment by Rhoda — January 31, 2011 @ 1:20 am

I just want to let everyone on facebook aware there is a new scammer in town…..Or should I say from maylaysa. Stating he works for Facebook and I have recently won Facebook Lottery of 350.000.00 and His name is Michael Mansion. He claims to be the man running the show and if I send him $750.00 western union in his name he can send my money within 82hrs. WTHE. Facebook I think you need to look into this because he is using your site to solicit innocent people and sad to say there are going to be people out there that are going to fall for this scam……..Please look into this and make this man pay for his crime he is trying to commit Thanx a concerned facebook patron.

Comment by Dawn Allen — February 3, 2011 @ 4:33 pm

I have stupidly completed the scam on the IQ quiz where I have received text messages saying that I have subscribed to therir weekly subscription for $10 pw and to reply STOP for this to end however it doesn't allow me to reply to the text. Any suggestions as to hw to stop this?

Comment by Lydia — February 4, 2011 @ 1:25 pm

William Reyna February 18 at 7:06am Report
We happily to announce to you that draw of FACE BOOK National Lottery all over the world online Sweepstakes International program held this month Of Feb. 2011. Have won u$ 55Million US dollars cash price) from the Worldwide Deaf and Hearing organization lottery draw 2011

Your profile on Face Book was one of the selected profile all over the world in the lottery draw and it comes out one of the 5 lucky winning from the deaf and hearing group on Face Book. For us to process your winning money you are advice to contact our judiciary agent with the details below for processing your fund.

Your winning Details;
Winning No: 12,18,37,40,46,47 C.48 R.7
BATCH No: CY/9456/EU
REFERENCE No:6778–786–0000

Please provide the following details for processing of your claimant paying .
1,FULL NAME :
2, FULL ADDRESS:
3, NATIONALITY:
4, SEX:
5, AGE:
6, PHONE/MOBIL
And let you know that you will need to Chat with our Agent Online on yahoo Ok so that they can let you know what to do next so that you winning money can get deliver to you Fast Ok………And please Let you know that you will need to be secret from now to ur self ok so that your winning money can get Deliver to you successfully Ok……So that you can have much money with you to take Good care of your Good Family Ok.

Comment by judy — February 18, 2011 @ 10:00 am

who do you report these scams to….i just had someone ask me to western union money to them…the big sob story, was robbed, etc.

Comment by Sandy — February 18, 2011 @ 11:21 am

need to send up the facebook from margate deaf shool from 1977 to1986

Comment by joseph dickson — February 22, 2011 @ 12:51 pm

I'm currently talking to a man claiming to be a Colonel with the US airforce. Now mind you the Colonel he claims to be exsists. He says he has a 11 year old son in the UK that lives with a Nanny. We have been chatting for 2 months. So far he has asked for nothing. But I don't believe him. I'm patiently waiting for the snag. I the mean time a few weeks ago I sent a package to the real Colonel and am awaiting a reply. I feel he needs to know this person is out there stealing his ID. And I don't want to scare the crafty person off on the mean time. I want them to get caught. Why don't I think it was him. Well he has boched a few things. Like talking about his friend the 5 star general. There are not any of 5 star generals in the USA and have not been for 50 + years. His FB profile picture is of a different colonel, not the one he claims to be. Wish me luck in getting this person or persons busted.

Comment by cagey — February 25, 2011 @ 7:25 pm

this is real

Comment by hhjj — February 27, 2011 @ 10:59 pm

From what i have read on here there are alot of scams on facebook.The best advice i can offer is if they ask for money or personal details its got to be a scam.I have found over the years if you type in a key word such as a name on google or go to fraudwatchers.com this will usually clear up the question "am i being scammed?.You should check out fraudwatches reguardless you would not believe the extent these people go to it really opens your eyes to the world in which we live in.

Comment by shezza — February 28, 2011 @ 3:43 am

i just had the same thing and was sent all the details, serial, regerstration nums etc. looked totally legit until they asked me to send money through the western union. She then then got v ticked when she found out we dont have western union in waterford, ireland. so i rang the us embessy and passed on the info to some sort of fuard preson. (sorry about the spellings). And i found out about it through some 'Friend' of facebook. when i went to her page there was nothing there, just a list of people she had friended

Comment by fiona — March 2, 2011 @ 9:15 am

no its not, they pay people to watch these website and tell people there real. us embessy say there not

Comment by fiona — March 2, 2011 @ 9:17 am

i keep getting atrraective women adding me then they always want my yahoo addy any ideas why?

Comment by david — March 8, 2011 @ 12:41 pm

same here, melody, they used my friend's names and it pisses me off because the imposters not only use there names for scams, they stole there identidy, they, also ruin there facebook friends trust and end up losing them.

Comment by justiun ridling — March 12, 2011 @ 4:45 am

Ive received an email from facebook team Susan Hatcher congratulating me on facebook cash splash promo , and i have ben selected as 1 of 15 lucky winners …please help since in a quick decision i relied to the email tonybrowne@gmail.com and forwarded my mobile number …have i messed up , please help

Comment by Shamiema Ismail — March 12, 2011 @ 7:45 am

Please i need urgent help, i received this email stating that i am one of 17 winners From International Promotions Program which is conducted BIA- annually by Mark Zuckerberg… is this true i must pay money via Western union to an attorney

Comment by Sonya — March 22, 2011 @ 5:55 am

This scam is still ongoing, my niece was approached using this format this very evening, when I contacted the unscrupulous swearword by messenger and confronted him, he immediately went offline. Needless to say his details have been passed on to relevant organisations for further investigation.
He befriended by claiming to be a Christian family man, and also claimed he was an agent of the DHHC.

Comment by technophil — March 22, 2011 @ 8:28 pm

Hi People, I received and email from facebook :
Kate Williams March 22 at 1:51am Report
From Face book Promotion Team
Your http://www.facebook.com user name/profile has won the sum of £500,000 Pounds Sterling in the ongoing face book promotion, for claim email: teamfacebook@w.cn with your.

Full name:
Address:
Tel (Mobile, office and home):
Nationality:
Email Address:
Age:
Occupation:
Sex:

Comment by Saj — March 23, 2011 @ 8:20 am

What scam is the 'Facebook INTERNATIONAL AWARD CERTIFICATE".
Do they work from the Uk or Thailand?
What do they hope to gain?
Can anyone shed some light on this topic. ?

Comment by Liz — March 24, 2011 @ 1:09 am

I recieved this email:
FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGEMENT OFFICE
FACEBOOK ANNIVERSARY PROMOTION
REFL2/209318/09
BATCH:18/103/HME.

CONGRATULATIONS

We happily announce to you the draw of the FACEBOOK SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTION, at our Lotto Draw Headquarters London, United Kingdom organized by FACEBOOK. This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of ?530,000.00GBP (Five Hundred And Thirty Thousand Great British Pounds)

FACEBOOK Promo Inc. arranged and gathered some of all the E-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to all E-mail Providers most especially Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail, we only selected Twenty (20) candidates per-annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without the candid. For claims contact the claims office email

All reply should be sent to the Promotion Office Email:
facebook_verification@live.com

Dr. John Kennedy.
PROMOTION OFFICER
Tele:+44-7045-739-928

Facebook ? 2011

You have 13 new notifications. Visit Facebook now to see what's happening with your friends.

Comment by Judy McAnally — April 1, 2011 @ 9:19 am

someone mailed me and told me that i won some amount of $150.000USD..is it true that face book lottery promo is real?

Comment by caroline — April 8, 2011 @ 11:57 am

I know how to protect myself on Facebook, just warning all of you!
Update your privacy settings! Helpful article!

Comment by Diana Ulpolsa Portola — April 20, 2011 @ 10:32 pm

I got an email from the Facebook Abuse Department (Edward@Facebook.com) with a zip file. You should warn people about emails like this too:

Dear Customer.
Spam is sent from your FaceBook account.
Your password has been changed for safety.
Information regarding your account and a new password is attached to the letter.
Read this information thoroughly and change the password to complicated one.
Thank you for your attention.
FaceBook Service.

Comment by atterol — May 2, 2011 @ 7:09 pm

Deaf World Help Organization – wants my name and phone number for me to win a lottery / gift of $300000.00 I have to send them $550.00. Should I believe this

Comment by Fergie1957 — May 4, 2011 @ 12:25 pm

I have been chatting with three men on are you interested and the funny thing is that they all have lost there wife and are raising one kid alone. I think they are scammer con artist too….

Comment by Tammy — May 13, 2011 @ 1:44 pm

I was told about this today and directed to contact "Agent Ralph Olasco, Jr." via Facebook to get my money. My friend paid $3,000 to have her $100,000 in cash delivered to her by UPS. She did get her money and insists that he is a real and honest person and this is not a scam. She is pressing me to trust her and go for it. I contacted him via FB, he immediately accepted my friend request & sent me an IM telling me I was chosen to win $150,000. was I ready to claim my money? My husband encouraged me to check it out and that it was a scam so i told him we were going to pass. He immediately got off line. His FB says he lives in Maine and works for some electric company as a mechanic. BE WARE PEOPLE!

Comment by Kim Mynatt — May 15, 2011 @ 9:33 pm

A random guy (Gary Stanley) sent me a message complimenting me and my family. I dont know who the guy is. He says he was looking for his wife's friend on facebook to add and came across my profile. My profile is on private. I went to check out his profile and check out his friends, he has two friends listed as Gary Stanley also (which I think is a little odd). Not sure if it's a scam or what but I will not be replying back to the message. Anyone experience something like this?

Comment by Mre A — May 20, 2011 @ 2:33 am

this has happened to me several times and yes it is a scam. don't reply to anything like that on fb or anywhere for that matter. If you didn't enter a contest then you are not the winner.there are so many scams on fb it is very important that you don't fall for the crazy links etc. Contact fb if anything like that happens again and change your password. You may even cancel the account and start another with a different email. Thing is if you get a worm it damages the pc. Not just fb.

Comment by dot — May 22, 2011 @ 11:47 pm

I had one pop up who was" Widowed", and claims he came across my profile while looking for a friend. I do not believe it, and I think it is all a scam too. My profile is private. He has no friends, and a very sparse profile .Please be careful

Comment by Maia — May 26, 2011 @ 7:02 pm

Yes, I had a very similiar experience. My profile is private, and this person claims to have found my profile while looking for a friend. Ido not believe it at all, and also think it is a scam

Comment by maia — May 26, 2011 @ 7:05 pm

Some other girl is on it… Sandra Mary Smith.. she's stuck at a hotel in Nigeria and the manager wont let go off her documents to return to the states except she pays off her pending bills $500…. she is expecting my payment soon…

Comment by Jkings — June 6, 2011 @ 1:30 pm

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1000019855... thats her profile… i am purposely keeping in touch with her as the guy from the States in other to certify her Scam and she apperently told different stories to different people including my friend so she's SCAM and impersonating because the picture isnt heres too.

Comment by JkingsJason — June 6, 2011 @ 1:33 pm

I re ceived an email that looked like it was from my sister and it had her Facebook picture. It said click here to see what she posted on my wall…but it took me to something called "Questions" and asked me to answer 5 questions about my FB friends in order to see what was on my Wall. I can't believe I fell for this phishing crap. It gave access to my FB and my friends. The questions were stupid, but they ended up looking like they were from me. Please FB, tell me thiswas just a harmless joke…

Comment by Melissa — June 14, 2011 @ 12:40 am

Having a company Facebook page, this is some very useful information to know.

Comment by GPS Tracking System — June 18, 2011 @ 9:36 pm

i got a friend request from a total stranger saying i need to talk to you about your husband,. i accepted her and there is no picture and i am her only friend. there is a birth date and email and nothing else. is this a scam

Comment by renny — June 20, 2011 @ 11:03 pm

Latest facebook scams i look here http://facebookscamlist.com/

Comment by Endi — June 22, 2011 @ 7:02 am

i just got a message from an Ina Johnson,teling me i had won $75,000,000, from the worldwide deaf and hearing lottery, asking me for my name,d.o.b,address,mobile number,etc,i sent a msg back to her saying i dont recall entering ANY lottery, (exept the UK's National lottery,run by the lottery comission),i then marked the msg as spam to facebook,have i fallen victim just cos i replied,even though i have NOT entered ANY of my personal details??

Comment by Mick T — June 24, 2011 @ 11:57 pm

i also got contacted by a friend, at least they said they were, about this and told me to contact a ralph olasco jr to get my winnings. This is a huge scam and I hope they get caught. I contacted my friend immediatly and told her.

Comment by Linda — June 25, 2011 @ 1:07 am

give home deaf gob poor for is a Bangladesh
+8801745010878 MD:junaid arif $100000
one you the dou come

Comment by Rony Junaid — July 4, 2011 @ 6:59 am

I was always told if it sounds to good to be true….IT probably is.

Comment by debbie — July 14, 2011 @ 7:56 am

thats too funny its happening to me right now. said i need to western union 2000.00 to get 150,000 asked me questions. the person that sent me the mess through fb i know her and she wouldnt do this

Comment by Maya Oliver — July 16, 2011 @ 2:53 pm

Hey,

There are many ways people are fooling facbeook users, just don't give money, financial information to facebook at all.

Comment by Imran — August 10, 2011 @ 5:40 am

Saw this one going around lately…scam or not?

PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS NOTICE TO ALL YOUR CONTACTS! In the coming days, you should be aware, Do not open any messages with an attachment called: INVITATION FACEBOOK, regardless of who sent it. It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch that burns the whole hard disc C of your computer. This virus will be received from someone you had in your address book. If you receive a mail called: INVITATION FACEBOOK, though sent by a friend. DO NOT OPEN IT and Delete it… Post this on your wall please

Comment by Nanci Rollins — August 25, 2011 @ 8:30 pm

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Comment by Ankit — September 14, 2011 @ 5:09 am

I had a scam artist posing as Lt. Col. Ben Jackman stationed in Delfur, Sedan wanting me to file for his release and fill out his retirement papers. I filed for his release and then there was huge fee of $2000.00 to pay for one week in Usa and it would be refunded as soon as he arrived in USA. They started demanding the fee and I told them I needed to cancel the process.

Comment by Guest — September 18, 2011 @ 11:49 pm

There is something going around facebook friends about facebook charging unless you copy & paste a particular message and then your page will turn blue and you won't be charged…where is this coming from ..it sounds fake

Comment by Kimbell — September 25, 2011 @ 4:44 pm

Worst part about the scams maybe not the scam itself, but the lack of the FB user to get ahold of FB in any manner whatsoever to help get back into account. Customer service nightmare.

Comment by Steve Cooper — October 10, 2011 @ 9:49 am

ALL games on Facebook.com are a way for Hackers to rob you of your info….1st: make a very long password, mine is 32 letters long, keep a record of it….2n: never put your correct birthday, city or town in which you are born…3;…don't play those stupid games…it changes your security to 'http'..from..'https'….if it happens, log out, then log back in……NOW AS FOR THE FLIPPING PICS, YOUR SITE NEVER STAYS STILL, I HAVE TO ANSWERS FOR THAT…..ANYONE THAT DOES, CAN CONTACT ME AT : GaryLogan@Facebook.com, or gary.lee.logan@hotmail.com…just mention that you saw my comment on what hackers do on facebook.com…..thanks!!

Comment by Gary Logan — October 10, 2011 @ 12:01 pm

Dear Retards,

In case you are too mentally deranged to figure it out for yourself… anytime anyone wants to give you $$$ for free over the internet…IT IS A SCAM!!!!! anytime someone you have never met asks you for $$$$ over the internet…IT IS A SCAM!!!! I can't believe that there are people who are gullible enough to fall for these stupid scams. But, I guess there must be plenty of dummies out there, otherwise there wouldn't be so many scammers

Comment by Oscar — October 24, 2011 @ 1:20 pm

don't do it. gary is a scammer

Comment by Oscar — October 24, 2011 @ 1:38 pm

my friend told me that she won 50 thousand US dollars and she saw my name too… it says to colplete the transaction i have fill the application form and send 60 dollars for administrative fee

so is this a scam?

Comment by ricky — November 28, 2011 @ 1:14 pm

do army personal really have a facebook curtis scapparrotti says he s in afganistan chatted online for about a month and now asked me to marry him wants to know me better i did block him on facebook msn and made a report to facebook….will i be safe from this now or is there some thing else i need to do like restart my facebook acct. or is the the real man…..

Comment by beatrice — December 3, 2011 @ 3:58 pm

There is a guy on FB that befriended me, at that time he was very nice and such a gentleman, we messaged each other everyday and we spoke on the phone daily. He ssid he was in the UK, name was Elgin Gonzalez., had a daughter named Mary that was 13yrs. old, mother had passed away and the child lived in Ohio with his mother. He told me was traveling to Nigeria on business and will keep his phone on roaming so we can talk. One morning he called saying he had been robbed of his passport and all his money and wanted to leave that place and come back home to the US. He wanted me to speak to the policeman, soon as this so called policeman started to speak, I knew it to be his own voice, just muffled. Then Elgin got back on the phone and asked if I could send his $2500 and he would pay me back soon as he came to me. I started looking at his photographes and enlarging them to read the photographer's name, while searching..I found the pictures of him to be those of the actor named Kyle Olsen that lives in Austria. I contacted FB and they deleted his pages, but he came right back with more. Another woman he had on his freinds list I remembered her name and contacted her, he was trying the same thing with her. He prays on women and gets them to fall for him. I sent him the link of Kyle Olsen in his messenger saying I know the truth, next thing I know, he was using the name of Kyle Olsen, changed that he lived in Austria. FB has removed him again but he is still out there with another name. He is really a Nigerian and plays his role very well..Beware of any man using Kyle Olsen's picture.

Comment by Pari — December 20, 2011 @ 2:36 am

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