Facebook users beware

[eric j]

Hi,
I'm pretty savvy about not clicking on stuff I don't recognise but this one slipped past me.
I received a FB friend request from a nice person who is a member of our theatre group. I was mildly surprised because we have little contact but thought "OK, why not?". (In point of fact I'm not a great fan of FB. From my point of view too many people post trivia).
Shortly after a FB message appeared in which she appeared to recommend me to contact an organisation in order to receive a nice amount of cash. Naturally it was immediately clear that the sender was an imposter. I deleted the message only to realise later that it would have been better to have confined it to junk.
Today other friends in our group have reported that they too had received a message frpm the imposter and warned the one who had been the subject of the fraud.
Perhaps this type of identity fraud is well known, but it is new to me so I offer the info in case it may help other TSers.

eric j

[Xairbusdriver]

First, unless you have different settings than I do, just deleting a message doesn't actually empty the trash. Therefore, that message should still be in the trash and you could maybe mark it as junk or drag it back to the inbox and mark it.

I still get an occasional (two this year) invite even though I "deleted" my FB connection over a year ago. But that pretty much guarantees it's a fake. Plus, I don't have any friends, anyway!