[curun1r]

Facebook has a similar problem. They’ve known about it for more than a decade…it was probably reported long before I reported it, but I first saw and reported in in 2008. But recently a friend of my mom was taken for $1000, so they’ve obviously not taken the simple steps necessary to prevent it.

The scam is basically to find someone with a lot of friends and copy their profile, pictures and all. Once they’ve done that, they reconnect and have an emergency that requires the friend send money. People naturally see the profile photo and name and think their friend is in real trouble.

With all of Facebook’s efforts to de-anonymize users, how is it possible that they’ve done nothing to prevent foreign scanners from blatantly copying accounts?