My Correspondence With A Scammer
In the last post, I showed an email from a scammer that had hijacked a friends Yahoo! account. Apparently, they also were able to get her Facebook account as well. Here is the Facebook messaging conversation we had.
Scammer (posing as my friend): It’s me jonathan, please let me know if you can be of help
Me: Where were you this weekend?
Scammer (posing as my friend): i was in Knoxville. i need a loan jonathan.
Scammer (posing as my friend): send me an email ok have to leave facebook now
Me: I know this isn’t Kari. Piss off. I am on the phone with her right now. We are notifying Facebook.
Scammer (posing as my friend): what it’s me
I should have asked the moron what part of Nigeria they were from. Notice the poor grammar on the part of the scammer. That is a hallmark of scammers, as English is usually their second (or third…or fourth) language. Be on the look out for crap like this. Don’t rush to help a friend until you confirm it’s actually your friend.