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River Vale NJ, Heads up to animal lovers , NJ State Senator Holly Schepisi explains a new Facebook scam. Apparently there is a group of scams on Facebook where fake accounts are posting pictures of lost and injured pups. They generally post in community groups and wait for people to share the posts.
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The scammers than target the people sharing the posts. The scammers are looking for “people who like or share without checking to see if it’s true.” Once someone shares the post, they may then be at an increased risk to be a target for future scams.
To see if a post should be trusted, cross-check the claim with another source. If it’s real, it will have most likely been reported by local media or law enforcement. If a post has the comments turned off, this is also a red flag that it may be spam, Scammers typically turn comments off so people can’t call out their scam attempts.