Scamming on Facebook, An Exercise In Futility
I should stop checking my email just one last time before going to bed. You’d be surprised how much sleep I lose getting reeled back in after planning to look and leave. It’s a nasty habit I’ve got to stop. But this is just too funny not to post.
I like when people try to trick me online. I like seeing what methods they employ and what they try to get me to do. Tonight I got a Facebook Marketplace inquiry from Jared Lerum. He was inquiring about a leather chair I posted on FB Marketplace a while ago.
It’s a good chair but it has damage, I don’t use it, and it takes up too much space in my apt so I tossed it up there fully expecting nothing to come of it. Well at least it was worth a laugh. “Jared Lerum” wanted to pay me with a Cashiers Check for a $55 used chair with fire damage. Pretty pathetic. So I took 5 min to humor myself at Jared’s expense and figured I’d share with my homies.
I always knew the power of Facebook’s Social Graph. Mapping the relationship of all of your users gives these types of spammers no where to hide. Your connections become your reputability. It’s cool to see it in action.
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