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Facebook spam
In my Facebook account, I never had a lot of experience with spam. Lately however (in the last 2 weeks) I suddenly get private messages in Facebook that are clear spam.
These messages include PM's such as "hey, how are you?" or "can we chat on WhatsApp?" and often come from revealingly dressed women's profiles.
Another kind of spam (coming more from middle-aged men's profiles) is a friendly opening to try to gain my trust, and then suddenly ask for money, for example to be able to pay study books for the person's kids (extremely expensive study books, I have to add).
I also got a message stating I was amongst a group of people winning a huge amount of money coming from a US-based organisation giving money to vulnerable or disabled people (I don't even live in the US and never participated in any contest by that organisation). Oddly enough the PM about this came from the profile of someone I know in real life, and she claims she already had her sum of money delivered. Probably her account got hacked.
I blocked every account engaging in these types of spam, but I find it very odd that I got 6 or 7 such private messages on Facebook, whereas in the past I almost never got spam PM on Facebook. I don't know what could explain the increase in such spam messages?
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