Scammers are flooding Facebook with groups that purport to offer video streaming of funeral services for the recently deceased.
Friends and family who follow the links for the streaming services are then asked to cough up their credit card information. Recently, these scammers have branched out into offering fake streaming services for nearly any kind of event advertised on Facebook. Here’s a closer look at the size of this scheme, and some findings about who may be responsible.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/scam-funeral-streaming-groups-thrive-on-facebook/
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Paul Chambers
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •This is horrible. I didn't think anything could be worse than the obituary clone farms that are nothing more than obit harvesting that set up fake online obits that look like the real ones just so they can sell funeral merchandise, like flower arrangements.
Sad thing, the families will never get the messages posted on those fake, but real looking, obit farms.
This is horrible at a new level.
BrianKrebs
in reply to Paul Chambers • • •Krupo
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •@paul geez you need an online scam scanner to protect a funeral.
Watch that get added on by an enterprising funeral home as a bonus option.
This is all so ghoulish
Richard
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Sterling
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •99 and 44/100 percent of anything you see on FaceBook is a scam.
The remaining 56/100 percent is misinformation.
As big of a cesspool as X is, FaceBook wins my a landslide.
Thanks for this article.
Keep fighting the good fight.
dillerbeck77
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Anyone familiar with crypto? Struggling with SafePal wallet always saying "not enough gas", any idea?
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Laukidh :ablobcool:
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •On a similar, but completely unrelated topic: I received an interesting new phishing email the other day: it contained only an image of a fake invoice claiming that I’d signed up for Norton Family Protection (or something) for like $160, and that if this was in error to call a phone number to correct it.
It struck me as a novel way to trick older folks into calling a #scam line by bypassing all the advice about not opening attachments or clicking links.
MrMozz
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Great article. This has happened to a couple of friends of mine. I don't know of anyone who fell for it but the deceased were both known for charitable giving in their lives so it would have been a pretty easy thing to do.
It caused a lot of trouble in both situations for the WIDOW AND CHILDREN OF THE DECEASED ON THE DAY OF THE FUNERAL. Horrible even by criminal scumbag standards.
Darberoom
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Brian Grinter
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