I got a message on Facebook about supposedly having won the Facebook Lottery. In today's post, I'd like to tell you about the latter.
This is Christine Jocalson. Or, more accurately, this is the profile picture of someone on Facebook claiming to be Christine Jocalson, and as for why I'm this careful in my description of her...read on and find out. According to her Facebook profile, Christine is a Claim Agent with Facebook. She contacted me with the delightful news that I had won the Facebook Lottery.
Don't congratulate me just yet! Read on first!
Christine asked for my email address. When I asked her why she asked for my email address, she said, "We are not allowed to chat on [Facebook] for security reasons." Christine must have been in a bit of a hurry, because she copied my address wrong on here first try. To my surprise, she then asked me to text her using Christinejocalson000@gmail.com.
Christine explained how the lottery worked:
"The draw was conducted with an automated random machine which randomly picks 20 balls which each ball is attached to a Facebook profile, and your ball number was 12 and you were luckily picked by the random machine."
"The draw was done to encourage and compensate 20 Facebook..."
Anyway, she continued:
"Your winnings verification code is [fake verification code], you must not share the verfication code with anyone, and whoever contacts you claiming to be from FACEBOOK should be able to provide the code. Your winnings is attached to the below information whcih you have to write down and keep it safe because it will be needed when you want to get your winnings dear winner."
Next, Christine asked me to get a pen and paper "to write [my] winnings code down."
She gave me some more information which I'll leave out.
She did ask me to keep this to myself "to avoid double claiming," but since this is a scam anyway...
Christine then showed me this picture of what she said were "[my] winnings."
Then she asked me for my home address.
I did not give it to her. She kept trying to have me give her my home address, explaining that she wanted to deliver the money to me in person and make a picture of me.
That's when she sent me this picture of the previous winner.
Christine must have been struggling again, because she asked:
"Please are you interested in getting your winnings??"
...and also...
"We don’t force people to get their winnings"
I won't go into detail here, but I did note that the picture of the money is quite a popular one, according to TinEye."
She finally concluded that I was not interested. However, what I want even more is to report con artists like her. Oh, and to inform you, my readers, by writing pieces like this.
I do hope you've enjoyed reading this and that you'll share it especially with people whom you believe to be vulnerable to such scams.
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