Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
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Beware of deceitful Facebook users who are posting pictures of sick, starving, dead and injured children, adults or animals on Facebook, to trick other Facebook users into commenting on them by typing "Amen," in order to make them popular. This type of activity is another Like-Farming scam, and the photos or videos in them are being used without the owners' consent. The heartless and deceitful people who are tricking Facebook users into typing "Amen" are only taking advantage of caring Facebook users, who think they are helping out, by playing with their consciences. The scam may also ask Facebook users to compliment a child, an adult or an animal, or type "Amen" to be grateful for something.
Scammers use the posts to gather up potential victims. Once they have enough Facebook users, they will start sending them spam (unsolicited messages) with links that will take potential victims to phishing websites that will steal their information, or malicious links that will take them to dangerous websites that will infect their computers with Spyware or Trojan horse. The scammers may also send fraudulent messages claiming that their potential victims are so-called lottery winners and they need to send money in order to claim their prizes.
The messages below are just some of the few examples used by deceitful Facebook users to trick other Facebook users into commenting on their fake posts:
Also, if you have received a message stating Facebook will donate money to a child if you like, share or comment on some content, please do not follow the instructions in the message, instead, report it to Facebook. And, if you have already commented on Facebook posts with sick, starving and injured children, adults or animals that you are not able to determine the legitimacy of, please click here for instructions on how to remove those posts from your Facebook Wall and Timeline.
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Thanks for this information. Best is to stop/Remove Face Book from our list of posts
I am now getting a bunch of post that friend's have respond to asking people to respond to stupid question like- Name a word that starts with an S and ends in an R. These get tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of responses. just block all of them.
Very interesting. I always fall for the baby n animal posts like you mentioned. No more. Thank u. Will share
My Facebook account has been hacked, if you get a friend's request from me please do not respond to it, it's not me.
It could that your Friend's account had been cloned.
My husbands facebook account has been hacked and we can no longer access. When we tried if we could retrieve his account, shows his profile picture but on a different email address. Can you tell us what can we do on this?
You may be able to get back into your Facebook account by using an alternate email or mobile phone number listed on your account. You may also be able to get help from friends.Keep in mind that you'll only see these options if you set them up. To see if you have these options:Go to the Facebook login page and tap Forgot password?Fill out the form to identify your account.Select a contact method listed on your account to have a password reset link sent to you. If you don't have access to any of these, tap No longer have access to these?If you've previously set up these options, follow the instructions provided or get help from friends.
Not sure if I should click on anything here now, but thank you for making us aware of this!
What will happen to already liked and commented many posts?
If the scammers are still active, they will send you posts or messages with links to phishing or malicious websites. Or, they may message you in an attempt to trick you into believing you have won some so-called lottery or promotion and ask you to send money in order to receive your so-called prize. They also attempt other forms of scams.
Glad for the information.
