Beware Those Facebook Scams

The facebook scammer who tried to get me was really sort of funny.

This particular idiot sent me an instant message posing as a friend of mine whose identity had been stolen.

I got a message… “Did you see from my status message that I’ve been stranded in London and someone’s stolen my wallet?”

Since he’s from the USA this might be a real catastrophe.

Unfortunately this person stole the identity of a Ph.D. in history who’s in his late 50′s.

When he IM’s he doesn’t say things like “like totally dude”.

I was going to make it really fun by telling this person that their identities old friend said “hello” and see what they said when I mentioned someone who’d been dead a decade.

But they signed off too soon. They realized they’d been had.

But watch out for this one and “Your picture has been posted at”… it’s for planting a virus.