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Post by Moose on Jun 8, 2024 1:38:40 GMT
I was dumb enough to fall for a facebook scam yesterday - there was an advert offering a heavily discounted cat tower/adventure centre (down from 60 quid to a tenner) and although I am normally wary about these things I could not resist cos I thought that they'd love it*. Anyway turned out that it was a scam and people started trying to raid my bank account minutes after. Happily my bank refused most attempts but one got through (only for eight quid or so but still) and I've had to cancel my card. Serves me right.
*The irony is that they'd probably just have ignored it anyway
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Post by Kye on Jun 8, 2024 10:34:19 GMT
It must be scam season. Someone created a Gmail account using my name and the name of my church and sent emails to parishioners asking them to buy gift cards. We sent out an email of warning to everyone as soon as we figured out what was going on. Hopefully no one fell for it!
When I called the police to report it, they said it wasn't a crime to use my and my church's name! Any victims falling for the scam would have to be the ones reporting it . Wtf...
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Post by Moose on Jun 8, 2024 23:05:27 GMT
Well THAT sucks .. I hope nobody did fall for it but seems that the police were not at all helpful. WHY is it not a crime to use your name, and that of your church?
I got the money back that was taken thank goodness. I will be more careful in future.
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Post by Kye on Jun 9, 2024 1:48:11 GMT
I don't know why it's not a crime to use my name. They were really dismissive... I haven't heard of anyone yet who was taken in. I hope no one fell for it ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png)
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Post by tangent on Jun 9, 2024 9:01:51 GMT
When I called the police to report it, they said it wasn't a crime to use my and my church's name! Any victims falling for the scam would have to be the ones reporting it . Wtf... This is what this website says about impersonation on Facebook: Their aim was to obtain money by fraudulent means since they were asking people to buy goods, no doubt obtaining the money but not supplying the goods. I don't see why the person being defrauded has to report the crime. Does the dead person have to report a murder?
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Post by Kye on Jun 9, 2024 11:00:15 GMT
Yeah, I agree with you!
I did report it to the fraud division of the Canadian Government, but they're not going to do anything. And I reported it to Google, but they're not going to do anything either
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Post by Moose on Jun 9, 2024 21:02:34 GMT
Hmm maybe you should start sending messages calling yourself the local police department ..
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