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And how are the jokes? they're kind of a little out there all right all right some of them are better than others i get that i get that yeah all right you know the whole idea is just to make you smile that's all yeah yeah that's good so how can i help you out what's going on well a few months ago i started noticing similar responses by strangers to uh post from my female friends on facebook and they start out with flattery, and then they state, oh, I sent a friend request, but it didn't go through. Could you send me a friend request? And if you look at the names and profile pictures on some of these accounts, they're those of retired U.S. military officers, specifically generals. Now, most of your regular listeners probably know by now this is an attempt to initiate a military romance scam. For sure. So, yeah. So I started doing a little digging. I did a Facebook friend search on the names of these officers, and it took a few hours, but I found over 5,800 fake accounts pretending to be those of just 19 retired U.S. military officers. And, you know, the number's probably much higher. For sure. I only counted those accounts that use the rank and the name or the name and a matching profile picture So I tried reporting some of these accounts to Facebook but the response I always got was that the accounts did not violate Facebook community standards You know, it's against the community standards, one, to not use your real name, and two, to pretend to be somebody else, right? For sure. Yeah, well, okay, so if you look at the FBI statistics on these scams, as recently as 2021, the losses in the U.S. due to confidence in fraud and romance scams were about $1 billion. Crazy. With about 25,000 victims. And those are just the ones that are reported. Yeah, exactly. That's a good point because a lot of people, they get scammed and they're just too embarrassed to say anything or to report or do anything about it. Well, I get that Facebook can't stop all the scams in their platform, but do they have to make it so easy for the scammers? Isn't there any other way to get Facebook to take some kind of action on these fake accounts? You know, unfortunately, probably not, because you know what? They just don't give a rat. They don't care. Well, I've actually written my representatives and I have gotten no responses. And I guess the only thing I can do is just to try to raise awareness, like calling you on the show. Sure, sure. I mean, and you know, it's a noble effort. And I don't mean to just say, well, they don't give a rat, so we're just going to move on. No, I mean, there is public awareness and there are so many lonely people. And Facebook, you would think that because it is a publicly traded company, right, that they would have certain community morals and values in order to uphold that, to maintain a good stature within the community that they are serving. but unfortunately they don't care or else they would do something about it you know that's they always go back and they whine they go oh we can't do this because there's just too many there's our algorithms you know come on they've got 22 000 employees all they got to do is to give one employee you know administrative rights to lock every one of those accounts with those names and go find the real person you know who has you don't even have to go find the person that has the real account I mean you know if you lock one real account in order to lock out 3 fake ones is that a big loss Yeah And you know what It a logical solution But they're going to say, oh, it's like whack-a-mole. We get one down, another one pops up. But their algorithms are good enough to censor what's in your newsfeed to only show you what you want to see. Right. Which is very alarming to me because like 75% of the U.S. population is getting their news from Facebook, but they're only seeing the news that they want to see. But they can do that. They can track every single thing about us. Mark Zuckerberg can go have his 40th birthday that he did most recently on a $300 million yacht. Okay. A $300 million yacht. Okay. It's not just $300 million. Okay. you're talking about probably at least 75 full-time employees. You have to dock it. You have to fill it up with gas. Then you need the Tinder behind it to carry all the toys that you're going to bring and your helicopter and everything else. Okay. But we still have people getting taken, not just by romance scams, but everything else on Facebook. And he does not care. Otherwise they would do something about it. Bottom line. And well, you know, maybe if it affects her image and it affects her bottom line, something will happen. But until then, good luck. But I'm glad that you called in because hopefully somebody is listening right now who's getting romanced by a general, a former general who just happens to be living overseas. They just think you're just so great. You're so wonderful. And I can't wait to start a life with you. and you're like, yes, this is what I've been waiting for my whole life. And then the general says his pension and his retirement check didn't arrive and he just needs some money to hold over until that check comes in. And then he'll surely pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today, which he'll never do. Hey, want to stay in the tech now without wasting your time? Join nearly a million folks who get my free newsletter, The Current, where you'll see the latest in tech in just five minutes every single day. You're just going to love it. 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