{"id":1303,"date":"2021-11-24T01:05:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T00:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/24\/abc-radio-brisbane-breakfast-co-host-loretta-ryan-warns-of-fake-facebook-profile-abc-news\/"},"modified":"2021-11-24T01:05:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T00:05:37","slug":"abc-radio-brisbane-breakfast-co-host-loretta-ryan-warns-of-fake-facebook-profile-abc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/24\/abc-radio-brisbane-breakfast-co-host-loretta-ryan-warns-of-fake-facebook-profile-abc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC Radio Brisbane breakfast co-host Loretta Ryan warns of fake Facebook profile &#8211; ABC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>ABC Radio Brisbane breakfast co-host Loretta Ryan warns of fake Facebook profile<br \/><a class=\"fmhNa nsZdE _2c2Zy _1tOey\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-11-24\/coronavirus-live-blog-nt-katherine-nsw-vic\/100645026\" data-component=\"ContentLink\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/100645026\">Follow our live coverage for the latest news on the coronavirus pandemic<\/a><br \/>ABC Radio Brisbane breakfast co-host Loretta Ryan is warning people not to trust any Facebook profile claiming to be her after her photos were stolen for a fake account used to scam listeners&#x27; personal details.\u00a0<br \/>Ryan said she felt &quot;sick to her stomach&quot; at the idea that her personal details had potentially been used to scam listeners.<br \/>The ABC social media team reported the fake profile to Facebook and it was removed on Monday, but another account using Ryan&#x27;s photos continued sharing ABC Brisbane content and advertised a fake prize on Tuesday morning.<br \/>Ryan thanked ABC Radio Brisbane listeners who alerted her to the fake profile.<br \/>&quot;I&#x27;ve also, unfortunately, had messages from people who have clicked on the link, thinking that it was ridgy-didge, and given their details and then had to go to their bank,&quot; Ryan said.<br \/>Ryan said the incident was &quot;frightening&quot; as the relatively sophisticated scammers shared multiple posts from the ABC Radio Brisbane Facebook page, used photos of herself and her co-host Craig Zonca to add legitimacy to the scam, and thanked people for their support.<br \/>&quot;ABC would never ask people for their private bank details or anything like that,&quot; Ryan said.<br \/>&quot;But the trouble is, people trust you when they see the brand and they see the photos. They click through and think it is you.<br \/>&quot;I felt sick to the stomach that people have thought it was me and I was asking for their details to give them money.&quot;<br \/>David Lacey, the founder and managing director of not-for-profit identity and scam support IDCARE, said his organisation received hourly reports from people scammed on Facebook.<br \/>&quot;They&#x27;re very clever in terms of what they&#x27;re doing. Obviously, in this case, it&#x27;s about harvesting credit card details,&quot; he said.<br \/>Dr Lacey said in the first instance, if people suspected a profile or page was a scam, they could click on three dots in the top-right corner of a page to report the profile to Facebook.<br \/>If a person&#x27;s profile was copied or hacked, Dr Lacey said they could report the issue to Facebook in the first instance, and contact IDCARE\u00a0for further help.<br \/>&quot;The challenge for many people is it&#x27;s a foreign event, so they&#x27;re not used to it and the process is not necessarily one where they know immediately what to do,&quot; Dr Lacey told ABC Radio Brisbane.<br \/>&quot;Facebook has tried to make it easier by having those three dots where you can report a particular page as against their community standards.<br \/>&quot;But the silence, or not knowing what&#x27;s happening next, and knowing someone is impersonating you and there&#x27;s criminal activity involved \u2014 that&#x27;s quite an anxious time for many people.&quot;<br \/>Ryan said she urged listeners to only trust messages, posts or comments from verified ABC social media accounts\u00a0and if unsure\u00a0to contact the ABC directly.<br \/>&quot;Never click on anything, and never give your personal details to anybody,&quot; she said.<br \/>Facebook&#x27;s scam page says people should be wary of strangers asking for money, unverified pages or profiles representing public figures, people claiming to be a friend or relative in an emergency, or people directing you to a page or website to claim a prize.<br \/>A spokesperson for\u00a0Meta, which owns Facebook, said scams were not allowed\u00a0on their platforms.<br \/>&quot;It&#x27;s against our policies to run ads or set up fake accounts that use public figures in order to try to scam people out of money,&quot; the spokesperson said.<br \/>&quot;We&#x27;re making significant investments in scaled detection technology to prevent these scams and have more than 40,000 people working on safety and security.<br \/>&quot;We recommend people report fake accounts or misleading and scam ads, so we can remove these from our platform.&quot;<br \/>We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work.<br \/>This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced.<br \/><strong>AEST<\/strong> = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-11-23\/abc-radio-brisbane-breakfast-host-warns-of-facebook-scam\/100642692\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; 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