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Post by jerri on May 29, 2021 16:03:44 GMT -5
I friend people on FaceBook if they look like they have extensive posts and friends. First time I friended a romantic scammer. Really sweet military man friended me from another group. Started talking about his loneliness, boom is it someone sexless I can send here? Ran a few of his pictures through google, turns out he is a professional smooth scammer. I immediately act like I am suspicious and he pulls away. Wait a minute, I think it would be great fun to reel him in but I don't know how long I can keep him online. In the meantime, I am turning in all of his profiles. I have a son in the higher ranks of military and this man is no military man when I questioned him about getting his rank. I was talking to my sister and realized these victims just want to believe and are just like a small percentage of Trump supporters who want to believe at any cost. Will search to make the lie true instead of discrediting the scam. It kind of made me sick to go to his other profiles and men and women who bought into the lie. One woman was apologizing to him on his profile and had wondered why he had ghosted her. (probably didn't come up with money to keep him interested) Here is his fake pages I am working on getting dismantled by facebook. He has quite a few on the hook. www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=curt%20RauhutAnyone know how to get this man snagged. I have seen large in other countries and I would love to get him arrested like the few YouTube videos that get justice and some of their money back. |
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Post by northstarmom on May 29, 2021 16:38:14 GMT -5
My suggestion is to stop wasting your time and energy on strangers who offer to fb friend you. I contacted the fbi and police about a person who was via fb scamming my mentally ill brother. My brother had sent the person more than a thousand dollars. He lived on disability. There was absolutely nothing I could do about it. I wasted a lot of time and energy. Focus on making your own life fulfilling. Don’t invite in trouble by establishing relationships with strangers who could be scammers.
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Post by jerri on May 29, 2021 19:09:29 GMT -5
This guy must be pretty good. I am looking to shut them down. There is a hacker online who assists people and wipes their computers clean. I found it interesting and at first thought, oh, fun, a military man just like my son. He reached out to me which means I need to make sure my FB page is tightly locked up. I caught him right away because he didn't know enough about his own regiment. Thought it was odd based on all his pictures so I am systematically shutting his profiles down but would love his system to be hacked. This one is less refined but I am looking to do this to him and am working on getting all the fb pages taken down. Look how many there are www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=curt%20RauhutI didn't know they were that good. |
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Post by Handy on May 29, 2021 21:23:07 GMT -5
Jerri, the guy claiming to break into computers might also be a scammer and it is your computer that gets wiped, so be VERY careful.
Both links do not work. I do not have a FB account.
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Post by jerri on May 30, 2021 1:00:26 GMT -5
Neither one will have access to my computer. And I won't click on links.People who get caught in that scam are giving them access to their computer which is a telemarketing call..
I turned in loads of profiles.
Right, you would have to have a FB account to see all of the fake profiles.
found sex scam.
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Post by Handy on May 30, 2021 1:17:14 GMT -5
Jerri, I do not consider myself smart enough to ever begin to understand how people get into someone else's computer so i stay totally away from the idea. Internet scammers are low life's and I do not associate with low life's, no matter the attraction.
I would never invest in any stock, like tobacco, no matter how high a dividend they paid. Apple company overcharges people for their products and cheats on paying taxes, so I would never invest in Apple stock.
Let us know how your turning in the scammers goes for you.
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Post by ironhamster on Jun 4, 2021 2:50:43 GMT -5
Yay, jerri! I don't have any advice, but I do make it a habit of playing with scammers. Every minute of their time I waste is a minute they don't have to hurt someone vulnerable. One of my Facebook friends wound up one of the scammers, who visited a bunch of different banks in Nigeria looking for his money. That was a classic time waster. |
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Post by ironhamster on Jun 4, 2021 2:56:29 GMT -5
I've heard tragic stories about how lonely people get played by these scammers, and for big money. It reduces my faith in humanity. I can think of other things that do the same. Dunning Kruger is a psychology term I see applied
to some examples. Life is hard. It's even harder for folks that are stupid.
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Post by jerri on Jun 6, 2021 4:31:09 GMT -5
Yay, jerri ! I don't have any advice, but I do make it a habit of playing with scammers. Every minute of their time I waste is a minute they don't have to hurt someone vulnerable. One of my Facebook friends wound up one of the scammers, who visited a bunch of different banks in Nigeria looking for his money. That was a classic time waster. He's short on patience! And they move very fast! Hasn't asked me for anything except possible romance. FB must be short handed because they have not dismantled his profile. Maybe they think I am the problem for turning in all of the profiles. We think alike because that's what l was thinking! Man just have this clown typing! Maybe he will look for a better gig! He's no doubt scammed a bunch of people from the messages they write on his profiles. Why use the exact same name and pictures?!?! Sad to think how blind they can get once they want to be in love! I wonder if I will get scammed one day when I am old and feebleminded! |
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Post by jerri on Jun 6, 2021 4:43:41 GMT -5
Jerri, I do not consider myself smart enough to ever begin to understand how people get into someone else's computer so i stay totally away from the idea. Internet scammers are low life's and I do not associate with low life's, no matter the attraction. I would never invest in any stock, like tobacco, no matter how high a dividend they paid. Apple company overcharges people for their products and cheats on paying taxes, so I would never invest in Apple stock. Let us know how your turning in the scammers goes for you. I won't be clicking on any links! Last thing I need is a take over of messenger! It happens a lot on Facebook. Amazing that they scam millions every year! Just sad and I wish they had better opportunities for employment! Some of these guys try to shame them on YouTube but you can't shame a sociopath! My computer has nothing for them as I refuse to bill pay or bank online. Have you ran across any scams? I have seen a couple of small ones. I used to just delete the message. |
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Post by Handy on Jun 6, 2021 12:34:28 GMT -5
I got one scam that was troubling at first. The scammer got my sign in name, my password, my email address and some personal information from an old forum I used to post on. The scammer said they had video of me but my computer didn't have a camera. The scammer hacked the whole forum and had everyone's information. Anyway the scammer wanted $900 in Bitcoin to not divulge my information to the dark web. The scammer said they got the information when I was on the Internet because I didn't have the latest updates. I eventually found out that was a lie because because the old forum wasn't working anymore. I never paid the ransom and changed several of my user names and password combinations on several forums. I did a complete re-install of all of the software on the computer back to factory specifications and had a computer friend go over my computer for spy ware or what ever. That whole event upset me a lot.
Now I have 4 pages of user names and passwords so if one account gets hacked, the user name and password is different on all of my other accounts. Some accounts have triple ID and a picture before I can get into the account. It is a pain in the ass keeping everything straight but I do not want another Bitcoin ransom e-mail notification.
I also get links from friends (first name) but the e-mail address is different, so those go into the scammer file ASAP. Of course I get several e-mails from "lonely hot woman" "Honey Mellon's" and "can suck a golf ball through a garden hose" which I know are trouble, so they go into the scammer file.
In addition to the e-mail and computer scams, three of the stores where I used my credit card have sent me a notice that their computer system was hacked so they were going to give me one free year with some credit protection agency.
Then there was the big one that really bothered me, one of the three major major credit reporting agency got hacked and they didn't tell anyone for around 6 months. Thhat hack involved half of the US population to some degree.
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Post by mirrororchid on Jun 7, 2021 5:30:38 GMT -5
Now I have 4 pages of user names and passwords so if one account gets hacked, the user name and password is different on all of my other accounts. Some accounts have triple ID and a picture before I can get into the account. It is a pain in the ass keeping everything straight but I do not want another Bitcoin ransom e-mail notification.
Almost every web site has the same id and password for me. But none of them involve money. Banks, credit cards. Those get solid, proper passwords. Granted, I could stand to beef them up some. 15 characters is the gold standard, from what I understand, but they can be regular characters. Problem is, most places want the special characters. They're still living in 2010. |
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Post by jerri on Jun 9, 2021 1:31:47 GMT -5
What a fun video!😂
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