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"Workers Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB)" Facebook Scam

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Workers Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB) Facebook Scam

Facebook users are asked to delete or ignore messages that claim they are have won thousands or millions of dollars in the Workers Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB), and that their names were seen on the winners' list. Some of the messages claim that the government is giving away grants and the recipients' names are on the list. But, the messages are fakes that are being sent by scammers. Therefore, recipients of those messages are asked not to respond to them with their personal information, or follow the instructions in them, even if the messages appear as if they were sent by a friend or family member. Scammers have cloned or hijacked some Facebook users' accounts, and are sending fake messages to their friends, in an attempt to trick them into sending their personal information and money.

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The "Workers Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB)" Scam

Congratualtions!!!

We recognise your name on the 2017 Workers Compensation Appeal Board Worldwide grant department. you are one of the...

It is a money grant program which is donated to randomly selected people by the Workers Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB) to assist people financially, with money all over the world for hearing, disable, young, old and retired.

I saw your profile details with the agent in charge when my grant was delivered to me, that's why I decided to tell you about it.

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A Sample of the WCAB Scam on Facebook

A Fraudulent WCAB Website

Facebook users, should not send their personal information to anyone on Facebook who claims they are winners of lotteries, online promotions, government program awards, or some other organizational awards. And, they should not send their hard-earned money or financial information either.

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Jun 3, 2022 at 7:30 AM by an anonymous user from: Bridge Creek, Augusta, Wisconsin, United States

Does Michael Mullen work for the compensation appeal board pandemic benefit program

Dec 22, 2021 at 11:50 AM by an anonymous user from: Monroe, Louisiana, United States

Does a Government agent Kelly James work for WCAB or DHHS

Jul 29, 2021 at 4:12 AM by an anonymous user from: Burlington, Mt Laurel, New Jersey, United States

I believe WCAB contacted me thru Friends Messenger, I fell for it. But now they are using my FB account to scam contacts and I am locked out. I cannot get in touch with Facebook. I want to stop them.

Jul 29, 2021 at 3:55 AM by an anonymous user from: Burlington, Mt Laurel, New Jersey, United States

I want to report these people, they have taken over my FB password and account. I don't know what to do.

Jul 29, 2021 at 3:53 AM by an anonymous user from: Burlington, Mt Laurel, New Jersey, United States

I fell for this, they took over my FB account and I can't get in to delete it,or warn my contacts.

May 6, 2021 at 10:05 AM by an anonymous user from: Miami-Dade County, Miami, Florida, United States

This scam is still going around. I just received the following Facebook message:

I received $250,000.00 cash from the Federal Government department of Workers Compensation Appeals Board, do you know anything about this?

This friend's FB account has obviously been hacked. I just reported the page to FB.

Sep 6, 2020 at 9:03 AM by info

(WCAB) (DHHS) Contact me on messenger today 9/5/2020 saying to give them information so I could get grant money I did give them some information cause they sent me the information through my friends account that I thought was her and it really was not her they hacked her account useing her name and picture I would like to know what I should do!

Jul 29, 2020 at 10:11 AM by an anonymous user from: Zanesville, Ohio, United States

I have been scam by someone saying I won money from this site I should not have sent in eBay gift cards. I have their information. I have the gift cards. I had sent them, gave them the numbers on the back so far. I don't think they have used them. I tried putting code from back in it, said no funds on it, how can I resolve this problem Saundra E. I need help

Jul 29, 2020 at 10:24 AM by info

It seems as if the cards have been used. Try contacting eBay for help. Remember, once you are asked to send gift as payment, it is a scam.

Jul 18, 2020 at 2:37 AM by an anonymous user from: Dallas, Texas, United States

This is the TEXT message I received about the WCAB DHHS grant. I copied the website information and checked it on a couple of sites where you can scan the site for viruses, malware, etc. Both sites said it was clean and not on a Blacklist. I looked up the Text # for the "Grant Officials" and the name associated with the number is "Warren Nedved" in Federal Way, WA.

If the name is of an actual person, I doubt he knows anything about the scam.

The text I received was from 936-218-0873.

I was still skeptical so I searched online for "WCABDHHS" and found some search results that looked pretty legitimate. Scrolling down the page I found SEVERAL references to it being a scam. If I had only done the website scan or just the reverse phone lookup I wouldn't have known is a scam. PLEASE BE CAREFUL AND INVESTIGATE EVERYTHING, NAMES, PHONE NUMBERS, WEBSITES, ORGANIZATIONS, ETC in any correspondence that says you could have money coming to you.

Scammers are getting pretty sneaky these days and with the health crisis they have upped their game.

We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for been part of our winners selected this years 2020 Annual WORKERS COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD (WCAB) and DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICE (DHHS) Grant rewards. Over $230 Billion are up for grabs in support of BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION This programme was set up to help developed, Promoting and assist the less privileges citizens of United State This draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses and telephone numbers from an exclusive list of E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by advance automated random computer search from the WCABDHHS: Contact your Grant officials, to claim your winnings.. Text: 2069468512

Website https://wccabdhhs.wixsite.com/wccabdhs

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May 29, 2020 at 11:20 PM by an anonymous user from: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ok so on facebook messenger I got a message from a good friend saying she get a wcab payout of 50k she would give me a website or office location she said she saw my name on a list I asked her wheres this list, she said the fedex guy showed her, so I looked into it mire a found out it was a scam I msged her back and sent screen shots of the article, but she didnt have a reply to those screenshots, so I told her the fedgov doesntt use face book to advertise, and they specifc specific forms for you to fill out, she said it was some guy name kenneth moore she spoke to over the phone that took all her vital information Over the phone, then I laughed at her and tokd youre smarterr than that, then in the messenger status bar said the person is no longer on facebook, out of respect I deleted her msgs since she didnt want to be on messenger, I searched on facebook and she deleted her facebook profile, not even our mutal friends can find her profile, I know this girl pretty well shes like my big gullible sister,

I realize now that msg was sent to me by a malicious computational language program, once I cought on to the scam it deleted her identity off face book, wcab old computer system was not legally disposed of, seems tho it has surfaced in british columbia, attempting to steal identites of people born in bc and have never lived anywhere else, who in the bc goverment do I report this to, I cant find her anywhere on the internet and everyone I know says her phones not work working,

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