Scammers

SUB ALERT!!!

INCOMING....

BOOOOOOOM!!!!

Between yesterday and this morning, I have been greeted with just shy of 50 messages warning me about a duplicated friend request and a phantom account hack.

Just now, this came in:

"Heads-up!! Almost every account is being cloned. Your picture and your name are used to create a new face book account (they don't need your password to do this this). They want your friends to add them to their Facebook account. Your friends will think that it's you and accept your request. From that point on they can write what they want under your name. I have NO plans to open a new account. Please DO NOT accept a 2nd friend request from "me". please forward to all your contacts"

My biggest worry is that Professors, Doctors(medical and academic), elites, aristocratic people on my friend list have become puppets and peddlers of this misinformation.

This is a trend I expect among Junior secondary school students who lack discretion on which information to consume and convey. But to see a juvenile disease afflict well read adults who should know better plunges me in an ocean of even more wonder.

How long will it take the intellectuals to figure out?

Many times, I have believed we are averagely a literate nation. That's what the stats say. We can read and write. But what happens between intellectualism and intelligence isn't taught in classrooms and I guess that's where we are most lacking.