Facebook scammers impersonated a woman to trick her friend into paying for a nonexistent grant. See the conversation ...

Beware: A sinister new scam is sweeping across Facebook, turning trusted friends into unwitting accomplices in a plot to ...

Officers do not collect payments over the phone or request donations via Venmo or other apps, the Tacoma Police Department ...

On that note, any type of Facebook Marketplace transaction that asks you for private information is likely to be a phishing scam. Local sellers don’t need your Social Security or bank account routing ...

A victim of a scam that seems to good to be true is speaking out about the problem, and Colorado authorities say it's an ...

Falling for Facebook fraudsters isn’t inevitable, though. We outline some common Facebook and Facebook Marketplace scams to look out for in 2024, offering practical advice on how they can be ...

Facebook scam warning: How Pamela almost fell for a tech support hoax "I was working on my Facebook and it suddenly had a screen flash and voice that said the computer was locked and I needed to ...

Scammers Create Fake Shopping Websites Let’s revisit the story of Heather Hopper in California, who, after clicking on a Facebook link, was sent to a website called Apriloina.com.

Atrocity videos (0.93 percent) The top two scam styles prey on a general lack of understanding about Facebook’s functionality -- which, as most users know, is a constantly moving target.

Such scams have a chance of eventually leading to phishing, identity theft, or other harmful outcomes. No one was genuinely giving away $750 on Cash App for free on Facebook or Instagram.

Facebook scams - the 'classics' and how to avoid them But some things on Facebook haven’t changed - namely, the scams. It’s not that cybercriminals are unoriginal - it’s just that there are ...

These are the most popular scams, but it's really just the tip of the iceberg. If you want to keep track of every scam happening on Facebook, the site Facecrooks is updated with scams as they break.