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.
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Jeff on January 13th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
I keep receiving emails from people who are adding me on Facebook and saw my profile and etc..
I never opened the emails though.. I wonder what they want ?
It just doesn’t make sense since.. I never subscribed to Facebook.. lol