Victim Location 03461
Total money lost $400
Type of a scam Government Grant
"FRIEND" put me in contact with "Mark" to verify my name on the list of grant winners from the Government-FB program.
Got me to pay a partial portion of $1650 for fees and taxes for release of funds. Got "friend" involved to convince me it was legitimate. "FRIEND" even paid $1400 of it, then they got another $150 from me. No delivery confirmation, inquired, and asked "friend" what she had to do. Then I got a pm from "Mark" again asking for $150 more to release the court certificate. I agreed but didn’t. He sent an address, i googled, it wasn’t adding up, i found a search warrent record for drugs… Etc. I told "friend"and all of a sudden she had to go out abrupt good bye. No further pming from "Mark". I blocked both and saved "Mark " conversation in saved messeges and screenshotted "friend’s"conversation. I pulled up a padt conversation with friend and told her she was hacked…explained what was going on, and posted a screenshot of imposter pm profile with a warning on FB.