To wonder why so people fall for Facebook scams?

[Lauren1983]

A Facebook friend of mine shared a post from a fake Toby Carvery page that was offering a free meal for 2 to everyone who shared. The page is named Toby Carvery Fans which surely says dodgy? There are only 3 posts 2 of which are the scam posts.

I know some people aren't very internet savvy but surely you would do a quick check to make sure it is legit. Nearly 8000 people have liked the post and possibly clicked a link giving god knows what details.

Facebook are next to useless and take an age to crack down on these pages so they are also to blame.

Maybe there needs to be more info out there to stop people being taken in by these scams?

If you look at those competition Facebook pages you can see they aren’t real!

They never have any information on them, only about two pictures, and one of them I scrolled down and it turned into someone’s profile page!

When my friends share them I always want to comment ‘it’s fake!’ But don’t know if I should. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Oh I had one of these....in fact several...I was bored at home a few years ago, so played along for weeks with a few of them...even sent fake western union paperwork to show i had sent them money....eventually a few turned very abusive and another finally admitted he was in the internet cafe in ghana with hundreds of lads all scamming away...!!

I’ve just done this with one of the WhatsApp “lost my phone, here’s my new number, mum” ones. Told him long rambling stories about fictitious people doing nothing much, whilst pretending to try and figure out how to use internet banking. I was trying to get him to donate to charity, for my overdue Xmas gift, no luck there sadly. He got abusive in the end when I told him I only had 82p.