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The new Facebook Scam that has me asking for
funds and selling green stuff – Yikes!
Hokey Mokey! My Facebook Name was high jacked! Can you believe it some dummy has made
another ME and is trying to scam people using the NEW ME.
How could that happen?
The odd time when I go on
to the Facebook page I see the small list of the people that I might know and want
to click into Friend’s List.
There was Stephen Chaloner’s
name and blue out icon needing to possibly be my friend on FB. He is
a Missionary friend of mine that works across Africa and in many countries as a
director for our church’s denomination.
Stephen is also involved in Orphanage work in many places.
Thinking that Stephen had
perhaps gone off FB and then was now looking for his good old friend Murray
Lincoln – I clicked on the Stephen icon.
Bingo I was his Friend on FB – again.
The trouble was that
Stephen had not left FB and was still my friend. Another guy acting like
Stephen was now also my Friend on FB.
This “new” Stephen had a
photo of himself – the real Stephen Chaloner with his wife Heather – albeit not
a good photo…
Then the messages started
coming from the new “real live Stephen” telling me that he was in Nigeria at
this time and that he needed money for three Orphanages - $100,000 to be exact…
and that he had raised $60,000 already.
He would be in touch with me again to tell me how I would be able to
send him the money.
DUH! The English used was the African flavour as
well… but not good English.
Here is the text that I
have so far received …
We re fine and doing great, so how is your
family?
|
Alida and I are more confined to our own
home with my mom's aging
- now 91 years old and slowing rapidly... but we are doing wonderful.. business is growing... chaplaincy is doing well... just enough to keep ministry alive - but not enough to kill me. |
|||
Oh that is good, glory to God almighty. Am
currently in Nigeria now
for a project. Trying raise fund so we can Carter for children and I think your donation will be needed. |
What do you mean "Carter" for
Children" i s that
"Care for Children"? Suffering from Missionary Thumb - right? How much money are you needing? Total?
What ever
God lay in your hand, will really go a long way
to help. We plan to raise about 100,000USD, so we can buy food stuff for 3 orphanage home, pay children fee, provide for the homeless and also provide for those who just suffer from Terrorist attack "Boko haram". Would really love you to partake in this project, will send you details of how to send your donation when you are ready. God bless you.
|
Sheesh I hate to even tell
my old friends that are frightened to death of Facebook and avoid it like a
plague… they will be even be more frightened when I tell them the rest.
The minute that I clicked
the “new Stephen” into my friends list – he started using me and my friend’s
list to tell them he was “Murray Lincoln” – the new one that they had just clicked
into their friends list(even though I was still there on their list). Confused
yet?
He also told them that I
was selling a product that would help them and also a mission of some sort in
the Philippines. The photo of me is one
from my own Facebook with Michelle Yee standing beside me – and the impression
is that she is from the Philippines! She
is Chinese… from Malaysia. But in
African eyes she might look like some one from wherever…. Good enough to fool
anyone.
Please Note: I’M NOT
SELLING GREEN stuff as a health food whatever. I have many friends in and from the
Philippines but have nothing to do with raising money.
Talk about a new scam –
wow!
If you have clicked through
some one that you thought was already on your list – and you didn’t check or
contact them… you are now selling better yak butter to the people of Nepal…
sorry to mess up your day this way… but you likely have been had!
I unfriended the New
Stephen and let the real Steve know that I nuked him. The old Steve is still
there and is now somewhere in Africa not able to check his Facebook – or maybe
is too busy trying to get to the root of the new Stephen scam.
Poor Steve Chaloner… but no…
Steve Chaloner had clicked on to someone else and that started the scammer to
come my way.
I wonder if the dictionary
will have a new term someday that is like STD – Sexually Transmitted Disease? And the new one will be called FTD or FBTD…
I can’t wait until the new
Stephen comes back at me… for more money. I will be sending him gobs and gobs of
Bible Verses copied into his messages to me… and back to him…
I can’t wait.
~ Murray Lincoln ~
http://www.murraylincoln.com/
1 comment:
I think everybody should check out the Scam Detector app. I believe they're online as well.
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