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To: SkyDancer

I doubt it will happen. Situational awareness doesn’t appear to be a strong suit amongst FB’s membership. If it was they never would have joined in the first place.


42 posted on 07/09/2016 9:54:46 AM PDT by B4Ranch ("The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.")
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To: B4Ranch

I had one for a while but closed it out. My GF has one I visit from time to time.


43 posted on 07/09/2016 9:56:12 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: B4Ranch

“Situational awareness doesn’t appear to be a strong suit amongst FB’s membership. If it was they never would have joined in the first place.”

A friend, a conservative, loved Facebook and joked about me not using it.

He posted about a trip to London/Scotland on FB and on Yahoo.

While he was there some got into his Yahoo account and sent out a ton of emails to his friends, relatives, business associates and fly fishing, that he and his wife had been robbed and all of his cash and credit cards were taken.

Their hotel had his and his wife’s passport and wouldn’t let them go until they paid a very large hotel bill.

He needed cash and a lot. We were to wire money to a friendly Brit who would help.

I notified the London Police and MI5, and got a response that was not something they handled.

Our friend knew nothing about what had happened until his smart phone went crazy with phone calls and texts wondering if he was okay.

When he got back, I asked him if he as still going to use his FB acct. He said no, and his wife said yes and still does.

Since then we have had other grandparents tell about fake kidnappings of their grandkids with very specific details about the grandkids. The grandkids were not kidnapped and the grandparents didn’t send any ransom money.

Again, a common link was use of FB and a Yahoo or SBC/Global/AT&T email account with simple passwords. The perps had everything they needed to know about the supposed kidnapping. College students were prime targets for the scam.


54 posted on 07/09/2016 10:48:35 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There is nothing special about the words "radical Islam"!!! It is just "Islam.")
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