Last night, Perry’s Mom sent me a screenshot from Facebook and asked if I sent her a new friend request. Nope. I sure did not.
It’s a common FB impersonation scam.
I did a quick post for any of my friends that might get a second friend request to ignore it — and immediately thereafter, a comment was left. The comment was to let me know (translate to let EVERY SINGLE ONE of my friends know) that my “hacked account” could be easily cleaned up by a service they could provide.
That too is part of the scam.
My account wasn’t hacked — it was simply cloned. I deleted and blocked that “person” and comment.
My security settings were that ‘friends of friends’ can comment on and see my posts. I’ve since changed that because I obviously have at least one friend that doesn’t know how FB works. SOMEONE (Perry’s Mom) is friends with the “recovery service” account. Good grief!
Perry’s Mom LOVES the AI photos she creates constantly with META, and I noticed her bragging that for the past 11 weeks she’s made the “top sharer list” for House video clips. We’ve talked to her about the dangers many times, but the little woman just keeps plugging along. And it’s not like I can unfriend Perry’s Momma.
We can’t stop the bad actors, and we can’t change how others use social media. It is what it is… and it’s another reason I’m not a fan of social media — especially Facebook.
It’s better to spend less time on that, and more time enjoying things like this:
Moving forward, I can only suggest that you lock down your account via your privacy settings… and don’t befriend Perry’s Mom. 🙂
Now you know: Some of the only survivors of the Jonestown massacre on November 18, 1978 were the People’s Temple Basketball Team, who were playing an away game in Georgetown, Guyana during the mass suicide event. Jim Jones radioed the team demanding they commit “revolutionary suicide,” but they refused.