Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Facebook scam

I generally pride myself on being quite wise and very unlikely to fall for scams and particularly gross ones. So yesterday, in browsing Facebook I saw this Starbucks offer promising a $50 gift certificate at their coffee shops.

Greed blinded me and I clicked, followed the instruction, giving my personal info and compromising around of my “Facebook friends”.

Did I learn my lesson quickly? You bet! Will I do it again? I certainly hope not! As my wife then said to me: “If it's too good to be true, it probably is...”

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