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Just saw this on the BBC website. Looks very malicious. Be aware of what you click on.
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Wow...thanks for the heads up @Bambino These scams are getting quite sophisticated and are extremely worrying...
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@MI5 wrote:
It's been going round facebook for years unfortunately and still the gullible fall for it.
Yes I've seen it on Facebook many many times, but it's now surfacing through WhatsApp, so I thought it best to give people a heads up. So many scams these days, you have to keep up and be very savvy.
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@Bambino wrote:
@MI5 wrote:
It's been going round facebook for years unfortunately and still the gullible fall for it.Yes I've seen it on Facebook many many times, but it's now surfacing through WhatsApp, so I thought it best to give people a heads up. So many scams these days, you have to keep up and be very savvy.
If honest I have never seen it on FB before...I belong to various FB groups so don't often look at my timeline/news feeds etc. I am grateful for the heads up...particularly as Tu is now disappearing...
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It's a little worrying because people always want something for nothing and these scams do look convincing.
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Thanks for sharing @Bambino! It is great to see you back 
Please remember 'Netiquette' generally discourages the use of all caps when posting messages online: With the advent of the Bulletin board system or BBS, and later the Internet, typing messages in all caps became closely identified with "shouting" or attention-seeking behaviour and may be considered rude. 
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@MercedesS wrote:Thanks for sharing @Bambino! It is great to see you back
Please remember 'Netiquette' generally discourages the use of all caps when posting messages online: With the advent of the Bulletin board system or BBS, and later the Internet, typing messages in all caps became closely identified with "shouting" or attention-seeking behaviour and may be considered rude.
Actually highlighting topic titles with capitals is very much accepted and also is used to convey urgency and loudness of text, usually used when important messages need to be posted in a manner that alerts people to the topic. Ergo, yes it is attention seeking, for a purpose.
It is also considered rude with the advent of bulletin board systems to publicly try to point out people's grammatical errors, especially when the system in place allows the use of private messaging systems (PM) in order to alert a user to their possible error.
If we can all remember this going forward, that'd be grand.
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I agree with @viridis The caps used in the topic title were, in this instance, used for a purpose.
To seek attention of forum members. Alerting them to a possible costly scam.
The remainder of the post was written as it should be, normal font, without 'shouting'
I see nothing wrong with the post or the manner in which it was written.
As a Facebook user it certainly alerted me to the scam.
