How to spot a Facebook scammer from 20 miles away

I have two Facebook pages – my personal one, and a page dedicated to this blog. The blog FB page reprints each blog as it’s posted, so if you want to follow my blog through social media, go to this link.

That being said …

Over the weekend, I received this FB instant message, addressed in connection with that Chuck Miller Creative Writing Service portal.

See if you can spot what I spot.

So … let’s see that hyperlink. If Facebook has an issue with my account, why would they direct the message out of that word-salad web link with a .app extension? Also, why would I be contacted by “Facebook user” instead of the supposed copyright holder for the supposed copyright infringement?

Yeah. This is a low-rent scammer, plain and simple. And I only post this screenshot so that you can be aware of crap like this on your social media feeds. This is the kind of material that can have people contacting you about why you’re suddenly asking them to sign up for cryptocurrencies or sending you “I think you’ve been hacked” messages. 

Best thing to do with shit like this is delete it and ignore it and never speak of it again.

Because scammers are like roaches. If you see one … you know there’s 20,000 others waiting behind the cupboard for the “all clear” sign from that one so they can go to town on your stuff.