Rich Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 My band's Farcebook page is being inundated with things like this... The scammers get a temporary guest account from FB (Guest 4756 in this case); the temp account lasts for 24 hours, then disappears. If you click on the link, they gain access to control your FB account. Not much you can do about it as the guest account, now with access to your account, has gone. It's happening to loads of bands that we know, apparently it has been relentless this whole weekend. There are some absolute wucking fankers out there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Far too many c__ts in the world 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk_lefty Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 ...and what do these cretins achieve with this nonsense? There must be bigger fish to fry for these idiots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cetera Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Had loads over the last few months. Just put them in spam and ignore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Yes have had 6 of them on some pages I manage. Usual precautions. Report and block. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodyratm Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Pal of mine posted this yesterday. Might help. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmyb625 Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 We get those as well, on the Theatre account. We've also started getting the "I'm looking to sell my tickets" replies on our posts. They're always looking for ways to scam you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Get those on thing - I assume someone must fall for it, but then they were going to fall for anything. Dissapointing but that is the way the world is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 I regularly receive emails/texts from "Thames Water" about my DD not going through - they're not even my water supplier. Earlier this week got one for my TV license - yes, I was born at night but it wasn't last night!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabag Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 I got rid of Farcebook a month ago. Almost forgotten i had an account now. Dont miss it one iota 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky L Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 3 hours ago, woodyratm said: Pal of mine posted this yesterday. Might help. Thanks, just done that. My business Messenger has been inundated with them. I guess normal customers can still contact me as they will be loged into Messenger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassTractor Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 (edited) ... and also on BC. Earlier today, we had spam in new members' Status Updates (surprisingly their ONLY activity on BC 😄) - - one of them using the name of a defunkt real company. IOW spam in a BC Status Update may well link to a scam site. Edited January 16 by BassTractor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 5 hours ago, woodyratm said: Pal of mine posted this yesterday. Might help. Thanks. We haven't had any, but I'm not the only band member with admin rights (and even I have been caught out recently, fortunately without bad consequences) so it seems like a good precaution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12stringbassist Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 (edited) I just block them after replying telling them to f off. the user names are a dead giveaway. Edited January 16 by 12stringbassist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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