A school friend died a few weeks ago. I've not seen him for years but did get on well with him and he was a friend on facebook and we'd chat occasionally.
His funeral was yesterday. In the morning I got a friend invite from something called "School Friend Funeral live stream" I didn't see it until later in the day...
But some people did... were asked to make a payment to the streaming company for access... there was no live stream... then later someone got suspicious and started trying to make video calls on messenger which were dropped time after time then sent messages asking who it was which were ignored...
Turned out to be a scam. People had paid and then found that there was a recurring payment set up on their cards..
AIBU to think this is perhaps one of the nastiest scams I've ever stumbled across? how can anyone sink that f*cking low?
Apparently it's a known scam. His poor family have been through enough without these "people"
Sorry not even sure AIBU is the right place for this... but I'm so angry ... also thought it would be a good place for raising awareness because not many people are going to expect to be scammed in this vile manner