I was a little surprised to hear from her since we had pretty much lost touch after she moved back to Oklahoma except through facebook. However I'm always happy when I do get a chance to talk to her so I entered a conversation with my "friend." Here is the conversation with my friend Teri:
Teri
hey Carol!!!
you there?
12:41pm
Carol
howdy!
12:42pm
Teri
I'm in a kind of mess at the moment!!
12:42pm
Carol
whats up?
12:43pm
Teri
I'm stuck in London right now!
12:44pm
Carol
there could be worse places to be stuck I suppose... what are you doing in london?
12:47pm
Teri
I had a visit to resort on vacation in london and get mugged at a gunpoint
12:49pm
Teri
you there plz come online
12:49pm
I'm getting skeptical but I want to make sure it's not actually my friend. If it's my friend, she will ask me to call someone for her so I'm going to play along to see where this is going.
Carol
holy cow!
that's awful!
12:49pm
Teri
all cash, creditcards and my cell phone was stolen off me
i'm freaked out..\
I'm starting to anticipate that there is going to be a request for money and start googling "facebook scams." Still playing along though.
Carol
wow... I was so scared that would happen to us when we were over there. Can the embassy help?
12:52pm
Teri
yes
still thank God i still have my passport..
12:52pm
Carol
that's good... I was about to ask
where are you right now?
12:54pm
Teri
in a public liabrary
my return flight leaves few hrs from now but am having problems sorting some bills..
12:57pm
Now I know it's not my friend. Again if I was the only person she was able to contact, I could see her asking me to get in touch with her family. Now I'm just waiting for the request for money.
Teri
Carol i want you to send me few $$
1:01pm
And there it is. I want to warn my friend of her account being hacked so I run off looking for her old phone number hoping that she hadn't changed it. She had unfortunately. So I emailed her and tried to contact her on her yahoo IM to see if she is online.
Teri
?
you still there?
you still there?
1:02pm
After some discussion with the college student about how she had just heard about this scam, we decide to have a little fun with the hacker. I come back but the hacker had gone offline. I was disappointed!
Teri
?
Teri
what happened?
??
1:21pm
Hooray! The hacker comes back online but I'm not positive if it's really my friend or the hacker. If it were actually my friend she would reference the email I had sent her about the facebook hack.
Carol
what happened with what?
1:23pm
Teri
you were not talking..
1:25pm
Whew! It's the hacker! Opportunity for a little good clean fun.
Carol
Oh sorry! I was checking and I really haven't got any available cash right now! But I did call my friend, Brittany. You remember her?? She just moved to London!
1:26pm
FYI, my friend and I never had a mutual friend named Brittany.
Teri
how much can you spare me as we speak..
1:27pm
Hacker is obviously trying to get away from the discussion about our mutual friend.
Carol
I've got nothing but Brittany said she would help! Give her a call 02072431619
1:27pm
The number is a tattoo parlor in London. My apologies to Portobello Tattoos and Piercings if the hacker actually called. I'm guessing they didn't.
Teri
ok
1:28pm
Carol
Let me know how it goes!
I was hoping for some continued conversation but alas, it was not to be.
A bit later my friend really did come online to give me and I assume a few other people the following message: "Holy crap, someone hacked into my FB account. I'm not in London and I'm not being held for ransom." A bit scary for her to be hacked but it did provide me with a little bit of Friday afternoon entertainment.
