Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Deaf scamming Deaf, Can This Be True?

This is really sad. Deaf people are scamming their own people??? I would like to warn everyone about this scam so no one is tricked! Here is what happened, I got an email from Deaf Peter Desmond through Facebook and he told me that I had won US$100,000.00... I had no idea who he was, but his Facebook profile said he was from Indiana School for the Deaf (ISD). Nevertheless, I knew it was a scam right away but I was still curious to see how he was going to try and scam me? I responded back to him and asked him "what is the procedure?" He replied back and asked for my personal information and my address. I was surprised he didn't ask for my credit card number, my bank account number, my SSN, or even my phone number.

Although, I wonder perhaps his account was hacked??? Maybe this Peter Desmond is really innocent?

Nevertheless , watch out for scams and be careful about what you say or do.

Below is a copy of the scam. (I have highlighted some obvious clues that indicates it is a spam). 

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Deaf Peter Desmond May 25 at 7:00am Report

My name is Desmond A Full Deaf Man from Face Book Office. I am one of the Face Book Agent, am here to announce to you a very good news.We want to inform you that your Screen Name is Lucky to be among one of the Lucky Winners during the Face Book Anniversary 2010 and am so much happy to inform you that we shall be giving you the sum of US$100,000.00 for been one of our Lucky Winners.
We really appreciate you for joining our website and for been one of our Yearly Anniversary Lucky Winners, so we want you to reply us back right away as soon as you receive this message to claim your US$100,000.00

Thank you and God Bless!.

Claims Manager
Desmond Peter
deaffundslottoclaim@gmail.com
Face Book Public Relation Office.

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Drew's response: "Sure. What's the procedure? "
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Yes this is real, I am the claims manager of powerball and facebook funds for deaf (PFFD). PFFD is a charity organization that helps deaf and hard of hearing. PFFD is in collaboration with the governing body of FACEBOOK by selecting all the people that are active online. Among the millions that subscribed to facebook, we select TEN people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, and your profile name has won you the sum of US$100,000.00 we congratulate you for being one of the people selected. To claim your winnings you fill the form below and send to the email address:

deaffundslottoclaim@gmail.com

Full name........
Full Home Address......
Your Age.....
Married/Single.....
Mobile Number.......
E-mail........
What do you do for living.........
Do you Own a house or Rent Appt........
Do you have YAHOO IM or MSN IM......

I am working on your winning prize and it will be ready after you complete process, you can check our related lottery website there you find many people who won same lottery : www. powerball .com


Best wishes

Claims Manager
Desmond Peter (above it says Peter Desmond ???)
deaffundslottoclaim@gmail.com
Face Book Public Relation Office.