Are Facebook scammers getting lazy, or are they getting dumber?

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I don’t know when this started, but I’ve gotten at least 3 friend requests from dead people the last month.

Who is possibly falling for whatever scam they’re trying to pull, and should we even feel sorry for anyone dumb enough to fall for it?

But also, boomers need to learn that some scammer making a fake profile pretending to be them definitely doesn’t mean they’ve been hacked. Part of me wants to go to 4chan and hire some real hackers to teach them the difference
 
The elderly are the primary target.
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
It’s always old people who have their profiles being copied for sure.

Older is wiser my ass
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Last month, my living grandmother (who is approaching 90) received a friend request from another elderly person who was already her Facebook friend. My grandmother naively accepted the request thinking nothing of it, but quickly became suspicious and freaked out when her new friend started asking for personal information her real friend would never ask for. I am my grandmother's primary technology support; I have trained her to be suspicious of any and all unusual contact and to not hesitate to call me for a consultation. Thankfully, that training and action kept her out of danger. Unfortunately, not every elderly person has a grandson living a few minutes from them that is willing & able to be their technology support. The elderly were already aged during the technology boom of the 90's & 00's and it is a foreign world to them - which makes them pretty easy targets for scammers.

Personally, I hope the flames in hell are extra hot for those fucking asshole scammers that steal from the elderly. That vileness is on the same level as raping 11-year-old girls.
 
RP-29 said:
Last month, my living grandmother (who is approaching 90) received a friend request from another elderly person who was already her Facebook friend. My grandmother naively accepted the request thinking nothing of it, but quickly became suspicious and freaked out when her new friend started asking for personal information her real friend would never ask for. I am my grandmother's primary technology support; I have trained her to be suspicious of any and all unusual contact and to not hesitate to call me for a consultation. Thankfully, that training and action kept her out of danger. Unfortunately, not every elderly person has a grandson living a few minutes from them that is willing & able to be their technology support. The elderly were already aged during the technology boom of the 90's & 00's and it is a foreign world to them - which makes them pretty easy targets for scammers.

Personally, I hope the flames in hell are extra hot for those fucking asshole scammers that steal from the elderly. That vileness is on the same level as raping 11-year-old girls.
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I definitely don’t agree with your last line.

But at some point, old people need to adapt just a little bit. I’ve got 5 living people that I consider my grandparents. Three of them have never used a computer and won’t be scammed, one is more computer savvy than I am, the other knows enough to avoid this kind of thing
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
I definitely don’t agree with your last line.

But at some point, old people need to adapt just a little bit. I’ve got 5 living people that I consider my grandparents. Three of them have never used a computer and won’t be scammed, one is more computer savvy than I am, the other knows enough to avoid this kind of thing
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The ones who get scammed are the ones who are trying to adapt. Technology comes easy to you because you grew up in it. Many of these elderly scam victims grew up on farms that didn't even have rotary telephones.
 
RP-29 said:
The ones who get scammed are the ones who are trying to adapt. Technology comes easy to you because you grew up in it. Many of these elderly scam victims grew up on farms that didn't even have rotary telephones.
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If you’re gonna fall for something like that, you’ll fall for the guy claiming to offer a free service to get in and rob your house too. If they’re just gonna blindly trust anyone, they don’t need to talk about any kids living a sheltered life
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
I don’t know when this started, but I’ve gotten at least 3 friend requests from dead people the last month.

Who is possibly falling for whatever scam they’re trying to pull, and should we even feel sorry for anyone dumb enough to fall for it?

But also, boomers need to learn that some scammer making a fake profile pretending to be them definitely doesn’t mean they’ve been hacked. Part of me wants to go to 4chan and hire some real hackers to teach them the difference
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Yep. They're not being hacked, they're being 'cloned'.

When you accept the clones friend request it gives the clone access to your friends list if you have that feature enabled.

Any time you get a friend request from someone who already has an account, click the 3 dots in the upper right corner of the 'clones' account and report them for "Impersonating a friend". Then block the clones.
 
RP-29 said:
The ones who get scammed are the ones who are trying to adapt. Technology comes easy to you because you grew up in it. Many of these elderly scam victims grew up on farms that didn't even have rotary telephones.
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My son and I were talking about this the other day. He has never known a time when cell phones didn't exist. I can remember when, if you wanted to have a private conversation, your phone had to have a chord long enough to reach another room. lol
 
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