Weird Facebook chat with friend...

[Kim&Chris]

Very disturbing. Facebook must be REALLY easy to break into, because this apparently happens often.

OP - the chat sounds, almost word-for-word, like the ones in the links provided. Please log off of FB and don't continue the conversation. It's most definitely a scam.

 

[bumbershoot]

Very disturbing. Facebook must be REALLY easy to break into, because this apparently happens often.

From the articles I sent, it's just the same old phishing scam...some scammer makes up an email that looks like it's from FB, disguises the email and link URLs, says that you need to click here and log in for some reason. Some people actually do that, and since it's NOT facebook they are "logging in" to, the scammer just got your info.

They send them out to tons of people, osme of whom arent' even going to have a FB account, but there'll always be someone who falls for it...

Same nonsense happens with paypal, and used to happen with amazon (but I haven't seen an email "from" them in ages), and those are two sites that will NEVER send out an email telling you that you need to log in to solve a problem, from that email. I'm not even sure paypal has links in their emails at all, just to show that it's them.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Well I am still trying to find them--but that's probably b/c they are working.


I went to the links and it is pretty much verbatim. I just wasn't brave enough to ask a question as though I doubted them--you know? Oh well! I'm sure they are safe and her girls are in school.

No money has left me.

I said I didn't have any, but that's okay--i guess "jill" wanted me to have a bake sale in my front yard. Oh if only I had the time or energy...

I hate liars/scammers!

She's polite as can be and I hate that someone got into her account!

This was in a regular chat window--which is what I don't get. It looked no different than when I chatted with another friend last week. But I don't understand the "back side" of the interfaces to comprehend how someone gets in and chats to get money.

 

[Honeibee]

Hi Lisa - I agree, this is a scam. I've heard this story a couple of times before.

This is for you...

We miss you at WISH.

 

[bumbershoot]

This was in a regular chat window--which is what I don't get. It looked no different than when I chatted with another friend last week. But I don't understand the "back side" of the interfaces to comprehend how someone gets in and chats to get money.

They've logged in as though they are your friend. That's why it just looks like a normal chat, b/c it is. There's just a different person sitting at the other end of the chat...

 

[SC Minnie]

Please advise your friend that this happened so she can tell Facebook and they can change her account since it has been compromised.

 

[C.Ann]

Now a few things are odd---my friend is not a drama queen, she's a very proper person and I wouldn't question her. But this seems out of character and I certainly would not be her first point of contact in an emergency by a long shot.

I think someone is fishing in her account.

Thoughts?

I called her house but there is no answer--but if she is working and her husband is working, that would make sense.

I hate to have doubted a friend--but who facebooks in an emergency to get cash????

I was trying to think of other--probing questions and they were offline once I stopped chatting. Just in case it was her--I didn't want to be mean, you know?

She's a flight attendant and it being the start of the school year--I was surprised in the chat for her to say that everyone was with her. I just looked at her page and she posts infrequently and I do believe I saw her in church this past Monday.

I've only traveled internationally once--and thing i would do in a brutal attack is facebook a friend for assistance.

(and we didn't use our cell phones b/c at the time we didn't have international calling on them.)

Very odd.

Is her name "G"?

Just kidding.. Definitely sounds like a huge scam to me..

 

[mickeyboat]

I don't have anything to add about the scam, but Lisa.

Denae

 

[karibritt01]

I would make a post on her wall about the chat... something along the lines of "Was that really you chatting with me from London? I am concerned that it was a scammer hijacking your FB account." It just sends up a flag for her other friends that could be contacted. I would also post something to my own wall in the event they hacked your info while chatting with you.

 

[bumbershoot]

I would make a post on her wall about the chat... something along the lines of "Was that really you chatting with me from London? I am concerned that it was a scammer hijacking your FB account." It just sends up a flag for her other friends that could be contacted. I would also post something to my own wall in the event they hacked your info while chatting with you.

I thought about that too. Thanks for posting it, I forgot.

Of course...the scammer might have denied wall-posting permission to Friends...

 

[just4today]

That's good advice putting the comment on the friends FB wall so others can see your concern.

The fact that the scammer used words like "mobile" instead of "cell," and "sort out" instead of "pay my bill" is very telling. This is a Brit posting, not your friend (unless she is British and normally uses those terms).

 

[BeachGirlFLA]

The fact that "favour" was spelled that way also points to a Brit or at least someone who learned British English and not American English.

 

[dawson5]

They had an article in the paper about this happening. I think you know that this is not your friend. Why not trip them up with something and then go from there and have a little bit of fun? Send them all over the place to pick it up from western unions? It might make you feel a bit better getting back at them for pulling something like this.

 

[hellokitty86]

I saw this same exact scam on Dr. Phil! Don't fall for it.

OP, I'm very sorry about what you are going through. Hang in there.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

THANKS for all of your help. The good news--I didn't have any money to pass along anyway, but the helpful tips and links and knowledge helped ease some of the concern.

I finally got an e-mail from my friend's husband and it is a confirmed hoax and they have corrected the issue. Yeah!!! (but of course you all knew that was coming!)

And thank you for your concern for me! It's been a sucky two days but things are progressing as they need to.

 

[SC Minnie]

Was on FB last night and got a chat from a friend asking if I had heard what happened to Michele. I said no. She then tells me she hadn't talked to her since HS but got a chat the night before saying she was in London and had been robbed. The story was verbatim from what the OP experienced. I told her it was a scam and luckily she didn't send any money.

So OP tell your friend to not feel too bad because it happened to others this week too.

 

[Robmom]

I was hacked on FB this week as well. Not with the same thing, but they sent links to all of my friends and put a virus on my computer. I spent hours trying to delete each post from all of my friend's walls, before any of them clicked on it. 2 of them did. I think it's horrible that there are such terrible people out there.

 

[Avalon_toon]

Glad you didn't fall for it - I was just reading about this the other day. Here's a link to an article about the scam...

Mugged in London facebook scam

 

[ols386]

Wow, that's an amazing story. Glad you didn't send any money.

Something for all of us to be aware of. Thanks for sharing!