Offered £150,000!

[Bob Williams]

by United States Department of Health and Human Services!     https://tinyurl.com/kebl3j7    is the genuine site.

This is a FB scam: looks like a genuine FB page, but it started as what appeared to be a FB Messenger message from my niece, who in the last 20+ years has suffered double breast cancer and mastectomy, returned to work as a Staff Nurse, then suffered a stroke. She had been getting better over the last few years, but I have learned through this episode that she has begun to have mini strokes. It does not look good. She is the eldest of 7 siblings and one of the bravest people I know, which is why I am so very, very angry about this. She is only 7 years younger than me and more than a kid sister than a niece.

I was surprised to receive a message from her using Messenger: she usually emails me direct, or phones. I had not heard from her for a while but I know her sisters will tell me if she is not OK. The message supposedly linked to the site above, her (falsified) words were that she had received £100,000 by FedEx delivery after being contacted by some representative of the USDHSS. Of course I smelled a rat and first checked out the website outside the link. The person named and pictured did not exist within the names of Leadership Personnel. So I phoned my niece and learned how ill she was now: her words are slurred and she could not tell me how it had happened. Obviously, her FB and email accounts are compromised. Knowing that her husband has no interest in computers and believes FB to be the Work of the Devil, I phoned another sister, explained that she needed to get Big Sis’s passwords changed, and inform all Contacts.

These scambags offer a list of “Winners” on their redirected Page, one of which was the shortened version of my name, another being the shortened, conjoined names of my niece and husband. Their grammar and spelling was carp, they offered me £150K by FedEx delivery, asked what was the best time for delivery, before asking for my address and email address. By now I thought I had played them on for long enough, so I told them I knew what they were doing, informed FB and changed my FB and Hotmail passwords, carried out a Scan just in case. Their last message read “Why you so sacrastic?” I just wish there was some way I could do some lasting damage to these barstewards.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Tippon]

Sorry to hear about her ill health 🙁

Tell whoever’s looking at Facebook for her to go here:

https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications

It will list all the apps that have been given permission to access her FB account. I suspect that it’s one of these quizzes or personality tests that are currently so popular (which celeb do you look like etc.). Remove any that they don’t recognise, and change the password again afterwards, for good measure. My mother and way too many of my friends fall for these quite regularly  :wacko:

[Bob Williams]

Thanks Tippon. I have passed that on, but I alerted her younger sister who is an IT College lecturer. I have also asked the other 4 sisters to keep a better eye on Big Sis. I think they have all been so much in awe of her that they thought her indestructible. Uncle Bob has lectured them at long distance! Safer that way, they are a solid group.

From what I can tell, the problem came from a Messenger  “Share” passed by a friend.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

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