Regarding spam scam and FB friend requests

[Tetrachloride]

it’s been a while but a scam hit me.

the key is a fake government agency giving elderly or disabled people free money.

you get a friend request and so it never stops.

[left-of-center2012]

1. Can you clarify what you are talking about

To me, SPAM means an email
A friend request to me means Facebook.

[Tetrachloride]

3. Spam in that its a mass event.

Mine was an FB request in FB. But it could easily have been email.

[3Hotdogs]

2. Free money ????? and you turned it down??????

What's their address ??????????????????????

[fwvinson]

4. If anyone gives you a dollar....

They want 3 dollars back.

[left-of-center2012]

5. "you get a friend request"

Have you 'blocked' them?

[Tetrachloride]

6. Yes. ty for checking. I have a friend with connections.

Going to enquire on influential action.

[left-of-center2012]

7. None of this makes sense to me

Not sure what you're talking about.
I've been on FB for years without problems.

[Tetrachloride]

9. link for information on dhhs scam

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dhhs+scam

[left-of-center2012]

11. Never encountered it

nope

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. I don't accept most friend requests in the first place.

Especially if I don't personally know that person -- simply having friends in common won't work.

I've also learned that if i get a friend request from someone I knew years ago, it's a very good idea to look at their FB page. If they're any kind of a right-winger, I won't respond.

[Tetrachloride]

10. In this case, the person was already known to me for decades

but the account was fake.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. Ahhh. I have gotten more than one thing on FB

telling me not to accept a new friend request as that person's account has been hacked. Oddly enough, I've never gotten those second, fake requests. I do hope I'd be savvy enough to know I'm already friends with that person and just ignore the request.

[LeftInTX]

15. I get them, but ignore or block them

[canetoad]

12. I hope you didn't

Get hit up for money or bank details - I guess that is ultimately what they are after. You can't trust anyone these days.

[Tetrachloride]

13. thats exactly what they were after.

i could smell it. 1) facebook and banks rarely mix. 2) generic name of James Smith. 3) and the blatant link itself 4) and then the bot deleted its own messages