The users of social media should
be vigilant of fake Facebook accounts open in the name of men of God by con
artists to scam innocent victims. Con artists use names and pictures of men of
God as well as celebrities and eminent personalities across the globe to set up
online account in order to swindle innocent victims in the process of time. The
account seems to be real; but in the process of time, the motive behind the
opening of the account will be unleashed. They post daily appealing prayer
points, offer all form of advices to followers. They look so real; but they are
con artists. They have good strategies in kit and they do apply it in stages
until they capture the mind of potential victims.
I would have be a victim of the
same scam. A suspected con artist opens a Facebook account in the name of
Foluke Adeboye; wife of Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the overseer of RCCG and sends
friend request to potential victims. I accepted the friend request some weeks
back. She used to post prayer on her page and also to my inbox which l do respond
to; until she came up with a project RCCG is proposing to undertake. She
encouraged me to be part of the project and also to give towards it. I
pretended to fall for her deceit in order to get more information from her. She
sent an account details to me. Below are our conversations:
Beware of this Facebook account, it is a
scam!!!!!!!!. She uploaded a picture from my own account which she may use in future
to scam other victims.
3 comments:
The account is set up to fraud innocent people.
This is bad!!! Why should someone be doing this?12
I watched a program yesterday on BBC called 'Fake Britain', an Anglican Reverend was scammed in the same manner. It's real, let us be aware!!!
My advice is that pple should limit the information they share on FB, don't reveal too much.
Also FB users should take advantage of FB security settings e.g limiting you post/comments to friends only or select who can see your posts/pics/events etc.
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