I get about ten recruiting offers a week on LinkedIn for “opportunities” that I’m perfectly suited for. These offers all have the following things in common: I’m pretty sure these are opening gambits in a typical recruiting scam. The next step is always for them to ask you to share a phone number or WhatsApp…
Recently, two authors that I’ve never met contacted me to ask if I was really soliciting business from them. Bless them, because they revealed a secret: somebody is going around pretending to be me. I’m lucky that these intended victims reached out to me to ask what was going on. (Authors tend to help each…
Last week, I received a request to connect on LinkedIn with a woman named Mara, a senior executive from McKinsey. Since the profile matched the sort of people I tend to connect with and work with, I agreed. Pretty soon after we’d connected, I got a direct message with one word: “Hi.” Not very McKinsey….
Did you know that Facebook’s parent company Meta is now releasing a crypto token called Meta Token? Actually, it isn’t. But the same scammers who placed Facebook ads for the Amazon Token are now advertising a Meta Token, supposedly backed by Mark Zuckerberg — advertised, of course, on Facebook. Same scam, different day If you’ve…
It’s been four months since Facebook first started showing ads for the “Amazon Token” cryptocurrency scam. New pages and ads continue to pop up on Facebook and eventually get yanked. It’s an easy enough pattern to spot. So why can’t Facebook block them before they go live? First, facts. The Amazon Token advertised on Facebook…
The strangest thing happened to me the other day. And I’m wondering why Facebook doesn’t have the (artificial) intelligence to catch it. This attractive woman who I didn’t know sent me a friend request on Facebook. Has that ever happened to you? It has? So it’s not just me? In fact, since I’ve been on…