A Facebook profile with the username @Lisa.Brown.8888 offers legit guidance for bitcoin and other cryptocurrency investments.
Fact Check
Since at least March 2022, a Facebook profile named Lisa Brown (@Lisa.Brown.8888) has been promoting a fraudulent cryptocurrency scam that involved false promises of bitcoin investments. A check of the account’s history showed that every post made since 2019 was edited on March 14, 2022. The profile may have been purchased or hacked into around that time. Nearly three years’ of old posts were edited and updated with new content in order for the scammers to pretend that they had been offering successful bitcoin investment opportunities for a long time.
An unknown number of victims may have been lured by the account’s promises into Messenger chats, where they would be asked to send money so that it could be invested in cryptocurrency opportunities. In this classic and unfortunately predictable cryptocurrency scam, once the money was sent to the scammers, it was gone forever. More than two months after the scam was up and running, neither Facebook nor its parent company Meta had taken action to remove the profile.
Photographs on the scammers’ account showed what looked to be a well-dressed businesswoman. However, this person wasn’t named “Lisa Brown.” The scammers behind this Facebook account stole…
