It seems that she has been awarded $100,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Sometimes from some unspecified Federal agency that is giving out large sums of money to random people for no obvious reason (because hey, that's how the federal government works, isn't it). And guess what? I'm on the recipient list too!
All I have to do to get my money is send an email to some guy to register my claim. She gives me the email address of some guy. The deal is, I've won $$$$ and I send $ to register my claim
It's a bit odd, because I'm already friends with my friend - how come she is sending me a friend request? And when I look at her profile, it's all new. So I check - and lo and behold, my friend is wholly unaware of having sent me a friend request today. We report it to Facebook, and after a few hours the offending profile vanishes.
But of course I like to string these scammers along. Where's the fun in just ignoring them? So I start asking her when her husband is going away again. Because of course we are secret lovers, despite never having met. She lives in Australia. I've never been to Australia. Our night of passionate lovemaking on the beach never happened. I know that, you know that, but the scammer doesn't know that. The scammer tries hard to ignore my advances
I have received this self same scam several times recently. I ignored it and blocked the sender but the most recent one was from a friend and it made me very angry with her. I didn't say anything, i just stopped talking to her as much. I see i need to patch up a friendship and report that exchange to facebook. Thanks for this blog, Jack. It's fun to read but you are doing a valuable public service, too.
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I've had three reports form friends in as many days, but since they're already friends, they let me know. I always say they need to attach the request to a report to Facebook. It seems FB just ignores a single report, but does act on subsequent ones.
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