Two women from Krugersdorp were recently caught by a scam and want to warn others about how quickly someone can be fooled.
Two residents of Krugersdorp want to warn their community and everyone else to be on the lookout for Facebook scams,These two women, Veronica Rei and Maike Vermaak, were drawn into a Facebook scam that left Maike out of R2,000, and Veronica having to explain to friends.
Her friend explained that it was a normal message saying ‘Hoe gaan dit’ . She further explained that after chatting to ‘Veronica’, the conversation quickly turned into ‘Veronica’ asking her for money. In the meantime, at about 4pm on the same day, Maike and her husband were at home when she too received the message from “Veronica”.
She spoke to her husband, who told her to tell “Veronica” to come and collect the money, but the person on the other side said it would be easier and quicker to just do an e-wallet transfer. At 3am the next morning, Maike was getting up for water when she saw another message. This time it really was from Veronica and it was telling her that Veronica’s Facebook Messenger had been cloned.
* Never share your login information. Scammers may create fake websites that look like Facebook and ask you to login with your email and password.
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