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Facebook Scams: Cyber
Crime Cases on Swindling > What to do in
case you fell victim to a Facebook Scam
Artist?
Engr. Antonio E. Jimeno, Jr., ECE
Valenzuela City, Philippines.
COMMON PROFILE OF A
PROFESSIONAL SCAM ARTIST:
(1) Gadgets offered at a
very attractive price.
(2) The Facebook Account of the seller has
so many friends and has been created for
several years
(3) Various Mode of Payments Available;
Bank, Money Remittance, Globe GCash
(4) No Meet-ups
(5) Pictures of different items sold by the
Online Seller posted in his/her Facebook
Albums and Wall
(6) Mastery of the Technical Features of the
Items/Gadgets by the Online Seller
(7) Proof of Shipment posted on the Online
Sellers Album in Facebook giving the
impression that he/she is legitimate
(8) Testimonies of his/her friends/clients
that he/she is a legitimate online seller
(9) Membership in various Online Community
of Sellers (Facebook Groups)
(10) Offer of Discount Coupons when you pay
thru his/her preferred mode of payment.
Step 1: Seek Professional
Help.
Yes. Seek professional
help. Focus on your goal and not on your
emotions. Your goal is to bring the culprit
to jail. Your goal is to get your money
back. Your goal is to keep your self intact
after this horrifying experience with the
Professional Scam Artist!
In doing so, let me start
with some important reminders with the
following RESTRICTIONS.
(1) DO NOT POST THE
NAME AND PICTURE OF YOUR SCAM ARTIST AS A
SCAMMER IN YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT, WALLS,
ALBUMS OR IN ANY FACEBOOK GROUPS. It will do
you NO GOOD. In fact it may expose you to
court actions, civil, criminal or both.
Come to think of it. You
are dealing with a Professional Scam Artist.
Would he/she use his/her real name and
picture? Would he/she give you his/her real
address?
The answer is definitely
obvious. In fact, the only truthful
information that you will get from
Professional Scam Artists are the amount
involved and where to pay it. The other
details provided by him/her will only
mislead your case away from your goal.
And what is worst?
You might be sued in
court by the owner of the picture you posted
as a scam artist.
Posts such as "Beware of
[FULL NAME] from [Address or School or
Office], with picture matching the profile
and identity of the real owner of the
picture."
You can be sued in court
for INTRIGUING AGAINST HONOR, UNJUST
VEXATION, DEFAMATION, etc. And if the owner
of the picture is a person below 18 years
old, you might get sued under Philippine
Laws on Child Abuse (R.A. 7610).
(2) DO NOT SIMPLY POST
YOUR EXPERIENCE AND WAIT FOR RESULTS.
Posting on Facebook will
not bring your Professional Scam Artist to
jail!
File a formal complaint
thru an Affidavit of Complaint detailing all
the material facts, with reference to
material evidence (screen shots, bank
details, GCash Transaction Reference Number,
etc.) and narrating the events leading to
the crime allegedly committed by the
Professional Scam Artist. File this
notarized Affidavit of Complaint to the
police station nearest you. File it also to
the appropriate government agencies
specializing on handling cyber crime cases.
Sometimes, people who
symphatize to you in Facebook are the
culprits themselves or their cohorts. They
would pose as victims, too and would like to
be updated by you on the status of your
case.
(3) DO NOT TAKE IT
UPON YOURSELF THE POWER TO INVESTIGATE AND
PROSECUTE.
Some people in Facebook
may give you the false information that they
have already identified and located your
professional scam artist, and that they will
be conducting an entrapment operation. Call
the authorities immediately and inform the
authorities on such development, if any.
It is dangerous to engage
into an alleged covert operation to
investigate and prosecute without the
assistance of the authorities. Do not fall
into such trap. It may expose you to court
actions.
(4) DO NOT POST
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION ON FACEBOOK
REGARDING THE IDENTITY OF YOUR SCAM ARTIST.
Why would you update your
professional scam artist on the status of
your case? Remember that your professional
scam artist has so many Facebook accounts.
He/she is constantly monitoring the Internet
on updates.
The Globe Business
Center, if you fell victim thru GCash, will
provide you CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION leading
to the identity of your professional scam
artist and his/her cohorts. Treat the
document as such - CONFIDENTIAL. Do not post
it on your Facebook Account's wall or album.
DO NOT post it on various Facebook Groups.
It will do your case no good. In fact it
will harm your case in so many ways. Seek
professional help and assistance. Follow the
instructions there (CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT)
as to who should have it. If still you do
not know what to do with the document,
despite the instructions written therein,
call us and we will endorse your case to the
proper authorities.
(5) DO NOT LOSE HOPE
WHEN THE AUTHORITIES SEEMS NOT TO BE
COOPERATIVE
Whenever you report your
case either to the remittance center,
electronic cash transfer service center or
even to police authorities and you were told
that you can no longer get your money back,
or that they can not help you with your
case, do not lose hope. We are here to
assist you in so many ways.
In fact, people who come
to us has sought assistance to all channels
possible but turned down for so many reasons
(and we have documents of complaints to
prove it). For as long as you remain focused
on your goal, we will help you.
We can even trace
people's identity and location thru Facebook
without coordinating with Facebook, the
capability that the authorities does not
have at the moment (based on our discussion
with them), thus the reason why we provide
them training and seminars on how to do it
by themselves.
Note: If you lost money
thru Globe GCash, there is hope in getting
that money back, but not from Globe as they
can no longer reverse the Globe GCash
transaction to send your money back. Call
us.
Engr.
Antonio E. Jimeno, Jr., ECE is a Cyber Crime
Consultant. He created various groups in
Facebook to collate cases of swindling and
fraud perpetrated in Facebook. He founded
the IS THIS LEGIT? Group in Facebook to help
buyers inquire whether a particular seller
is Legit or not. Engr. Antonio E. Jimeno,
Jr., ECE also offers his portal,
http://www.LegitOnlineSellers.com where
sellers are posted either as (1)
Provisionally Approved, (2) Verified, or (3)
Certified Legit Online Seller FREE-OF-CHARGE
to help reduce if not totally eliminate
incidences of swindling and fraud not only
in Facebook but also in the Internet. He is
a resource speaker in various training and
seminars to the government agencies, Armed
Forces of the Philippines, Philippine
National Police, Private Corporations and
Business Entities as well as Schools and
Universities since 1989. He also conducts
training and seminars on Ethical Hacking,
Cyber Crime Forensics and Techniques, Data
Communication, Web Page Design, Website
Development, Website Administration and
E-Commerce among others. Engr. Antonio E.
Jimeno, Jr., ECE is also a SEO Practitioner,
specializing in removing bad, malicious and
libelous articles not only from the search engines' page
results but from the Internet as well. Engr.
Antonio E. Jimeno, Jr., ECE founded the
International Portal Cyber Crime Complaint
Center as well as Online Reputation
Management Philippines.
Internet Reputation Protection Services in the Philippines.
by: SparkNet
Internet Protection
Services: Removing Malicious Blog Sites and
Libelous Social Networking Sites not only
from the Search Engines' Page Results but
from the Internet as well. We can also help
you coordinate with the authorities to track
and trace the identity of the "author" and
perform cyber crime forensics to help you
lawyers gather electronic evidence for a
successful conviction in the courts of law.
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