Last night, one of my FB contacts popped up wanting to connect on FB messenger. This was odd because I was pretty sure we were already connected. Things started out innocently enough but quickly took a suspicious turn.
Time to have a little bit of fun, although it was late and I had a cold so not too much fun.
He was completely unfazed by the dildo museum. Sadly I am missing the screenshot where he told me to contact the FedEx agent but don't worry, it's https://www.messenger.com/t/R.Robertdouglas463 which FB has left intact despite me reporting it several times. Feel free to try arrange to receive your €100,000.
At this point I was off adding some extra touches to the agent's profile and my contact was getting impatient. I am not skilled at image doctoring so this took way too long for very little impact.
Just in case you can't make that out...
Finally, the man behind a million WhatsApp jokes is on my side.
Again, he take's WhatsApp-man in his strideand just resent me the profile photo of the agent and asked me to click the link again. FB nuked his account before I could get another screenshot, so this is how our conversation ended.
I reported the first account as pretending to be my friend (same name, same photo) and FB shut that down pretty quickly but it's a bit sad that they left the "agent"'s account up and running. There's no way to reach a human at FB, so these scammers can keep creating fake friends and feeding the to the same agent, I guess. Not sure if shutting down the agent would really make that much of a difference but it might at least interrupt a bunch of in-flight scamming, moreso than taking down each fake friend.
