Social Media Accounts For Sale

People buy and sell social media accounts – for a variety of reasons and you might think this is illegal, but it isn’t. Some consider such accounts to be assets, and some go the trouble of creating and beefing up social media accounts in order to maximise the sale price.

This is definitely sketchy behaviour and immoral in many cases, but not illegal.

This largely relates to Facebook accounts but there is a market for new accounts with all of the social media networks.

Some Reasons Why People Buy Social Media Accounts

Advertising and Marketing companies. Facebook can impose restrictions or ban dodgy advertising. Hence, these companies can use a lot of accounts to run advertising campaigns on multiple accounts simultaneously and when accounts are limited or stopped by Facebook, they switch to other accounts.
Social media accounts traders and retailers. There are people and companies that make it their business to buy and sell accounts.
Anonymous users. Some users want to hide their identity perhaps due to unpleasant experiences online or perhaps for nastier reasons.
IT companies may need multiple accounts to test their tools and APPS.
Spammers filling the Internet with garbage no-one wants to read.
Scammers sending out their illegal messages to cheat people.
Fake news purveyors.
Conspiracy theorists.

Facebook accounts have higher prices if they are old. The older the account, the higher the price. Some accounts on Facebook can even cost several hundred dollars.

Buying these used accounts is not illegal but it does violate Facebook’s policy and terms and conditions. If you buy or sell you may be penalised by Facebook.

Example Prices

A basic Facebook account with some details may cost a few dollars.
A more detailed Facebook account that has been verified may cost more like $10
An established Facebook account with followers and posts may cost more especially if registered as an American user.

The more subscribers an account has then the more valuable it can be.

Do not buy or sell any social media accounts. Whatever you want them for – there are probably better ways to get and use such accounts.

If you have any experiences with these scams do let me know, by email.

August 16, 2021

Klarna Identity Theft

This type of identity theft is common on retail sites that allow payment services such as Klarna, Ladbuy or Clearpay. These are chosen because it’s easy to create an account using minimum information and with minimum checks involved.

Klarna offers three payment structures:

Pay 30 days later.
Pay in 3 i.e. spread the cost of your purchase equally over two months.
This lets you split your payments into monthly instalments over 6-36 months. It requires a full credit check and can charge interest – representative APR 18.9%, currently.

Identify Theft

The scam works by criminals stealing your personal details and then using them to create accounts with providers such as Klarna.

Stephanie McDaid told the BBC she received a £30 Klarna bill out of the blue one day, although she hadn’t bought anything. After contacting Klarna, it was confirmed she was a victim of identity fraud.

When customers sign up to Klarna financing thee is a ‘soft’ credit check i.e. only very basic.

If you think you’ve been a victim of fraud and crooks have ordered goods in your name, check your credit report for any soft searches. Also report it to Action Fraud and contact the relevant company in question, e.g. Klarna, Ladbuy and Clearpay.

If you have any experiences with these scams do let me know, by email.

August 15, 2021

Stupidest Spam of the Week The CIA

An email claims to be from Kimberly Grant of the CIA in America.

She says she has been working on a huge international case and my name has come up. For a small fee ($10,000 in Bitcoin) she can guarantee to keep my name out of public documents.

Hhmm! Is the CIA so short of cash that it has to blackmail citizens or is this just one rogue spy?

Neither – it’s a pathetic scammer with a fantasy story.

She tells me that Case #29786514 is part of a large international operation set to arrest more than 2000 individuals suspected in 27 countries.

The data which could be used to acquire your personal information:

– Your ISP web browsing history,

– DNS queries history and connection logs,

– Online chat-room logs,

– Social media activity log.

She says she has contacted me as she realises I am a wealthy person and would not want my name in public.

She’s wrong about the wealth but then she doesn’t even know my name.

If I pay the money then she promises, upon confirmation of the money transfer, to take care of all the relevant files. She also tells me not to try to contact her – just to pay the money.

She is only a spy in her own fantasy.

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August 14, 2021

Time-Wasters Update

An email tells us that one of our radio station email addresses expires today and we need to reset the password and the message says it’s from the radio station support department. In fact, the email is from fuitvjpx1a7.co.jp which obviously a randomly generated email address nothing to do with the radio station. Plus, it’s actually a dead email address they targeted.

Next is a long email advertising new ergonomic chairs that are ideal for our office – so it says. There are a lot of these type of emails recently claiming to be selling some common product for offices, but there are no company details, they have no idea who we are and the sender’s email address isn’t a company address but a random one e.g. atumedyhiuifmaetyx @… whereas the sender claims to be Harley Atwell George. Pathetic.

The fake bank account messages continue as always. This one uses the Natwest logo and a section copied from a real NatWest email. ‘Dear Valued Customer’ – No, NatWest knows their customer’s names unlike the scammers sending these messages to random people in the hope they have a NatWest account. So, I wont be verifying my account as the message demands I do.

An email from Pamela McDonnell asks whether we would like to jump on a quick call in the morning to discuss their Beauty and Cosmetics shops list. Certainly there are worse things to waste time on, but really? – sending an email like that to huge numbers of people in the hope of finding the very tiny percentage who might possibly be interested. Dreadful time waster.

An email titled ‘Better Roof Measurements’ is an unusual one. The only reason to need exact measurements of a roof is if you intend to replace it and then your builder should make the measurements they need. Plus, such measurements are in the house deeds. So, is there a market for such services? Roofez seem to think it’s a common activity and charge $40 to give what they claim to be exact measurements of your roof. That’s just weird, but then the sender’s email address doesn’t match the supposed company name so perhaps it’s all just made up.

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August 13, 2021

Macs Bait Store

http://macsbaitstore.com/

“Welcome to Mac’s Bait Store – Where we keep them wriggling like a worm on a hook…”

They say the website is dedicated to annoying, confusing, confounding, teasing, and aggravating 419 scammers who prey on the innocent because they are too stupid and lazy to get a real job.

That is perhaps a harsh attitude towards scammers but these people do steal from anyone, including the most vulnerable with no thought as to the misery they cause.

Mac says:

Does someone you never met and do not know want to give you millions of dollars?
Did you win a lottery that you never entered?
Did someone you just met on the Personals ask you for money?
Did you receive an offer that seems too good to be true?

These are all scams – these people want to steal your hard earned money!

Mac believes that reporting scams to the authorities maybe but that you can choose to have some fun with the scammers and waste their time.

Scambaiting

This typically means responding to a scam email and pretending that you are interested in what they are offering, and posing as a potential victim.

The key reason for this is to waste the scammers time so they cannot move on to their next victim.

It can also be fun. Lots of information and stories at Mac’s Bait Store about successful scambaiters.

If you have any experiences with these scams do let me know, by email.

August 12, 2021

Insanely Rich Cryptocurrency Trading

Cryptocurrency scams usually offer riches through buying the currency and the sales pitch is about how many people are Bitcoin millionaires and the supposed continuous rise in value of all cryptocurrencies.

This is lies of course as the price of the various cryptocurrencies rises and falls dramatically and many people have lost large amounts of money. Though it is true that there are many who have made millions from Bitcoins in particular.

This latest scam offers a supposedly risk free way to invest in cryptocurrency , not by buying it but by using a new automated system that invests money for you and makes at least £1,270 per day profit for you, for 20 minutes of work.

That would be great if true, but it’s lies of course.

Currency trading in any form is gambling and there is no guaranteed way to win.

Plus, automated systems are terrible at guessing whether a commodity will rise or fall in value, as so much of the value depends on human judgement of the future.

Guaranteed profits – but only for the scammers.

Never trust a get rich scheme that claims to be 100% successful.

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