Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
There is a new like farming post circulating which pretends to be from US celebrity Ellen DeGeneres and promises a cash giveaway to those who like, share and comment. It uses actual photos and videos of DeGeneres but is a fake account. This fake profile is using names similar to Ellen De Generes, eg "Ellin DeGenerous" that are contacting people via Messenger or on group posts to claim the person targetted has won a prize. But, Ellen DeGeneres is in no way associated with these fake profiles nor with the fake giveaway.
"This is The Ellen Lee DeGeneres Fans GiveBack Representative. I’m Happy To Let You Know That You’ve Won $120,000.00 USD In The Ellen Lee DeGeneres Fans GiveBack.You’ve Been Luckily Selected.To Claim Your Winning, Kindly message me With “ I Accept “So We Can Proceed. Thank You"
"This is The Ellen Lee DeGeneres Fans GiveBack Representative. I’m Happy To Let You Know That You’ve Won $120,000.00 USD In The Ellen Lee DeGeneres Fans GiveBack.
You’ve Been Luckily Selected.
To Claim Your Winning, Kindly message me With “ I Accept “
So We Can Proceed. Thank You"
"You've Won $300,000.00 USD in the Ellen Lee DeGeneres Fans GiveBack.You've Been Luckily Selected. To Claim Your Winning, Kindly message me with "I Accept" So We Can Proceed. Thank you"
"You've Won $300,000.00 USD in the Ellen Lee DeGeneres Fans GiveBack.
You've Been Luckily Selected. To Claim Your Winning, Kindly message me with "I Accept" So We Can Proceed. Thank you"
"This is The Ellen Lee DeGeneres Fans GiveBack Representative. I'm Happy to let know that you've won $300,000.00 USD.In the Ellen Lee Degeneres Fans Giveback. You've Been Luckily Selected. To Claim Your Winning Kindly...
"This is The Ellen Lee DeGeneres Fans GiveBack Representative. I'm Happy to let know that you've won $300,000.00 USD.
In the Ellen Lee Degeneres Fans Giveback. You've Been Luckily Selected. To Claim Your Winning Kindly...
"Congratulations!!! This is agent Kim? of Ellen Degeneres. I'm Happy to Let You Know That You've Won $200,000.00 USD and new Mercedes Benz 2019 model in The Ellen Lee Degeneres Fans GiveBack.You've been luckily selected. To Claim Your Winning, Kindly message me with "I Accept" so we can proceed. Thank you."
"Congratulations!!! This is agent Kim? of Ellen Degeneres. I'm Happy to Let You Know That You've Won $200,000.00 USD and new Mercedes Benz 2019 model in The Ellen Lee Degeneres Fans GiveBack.
You've been luckily selected. To Claim Your Winning, Kindly message me with "I Accept" so we can proceed. Thank you."
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Just received the notification that I won the money and the auto. Thanks for the clarification that my impression that it was a scam is correct with a Capital C! David Peretz—I write NYPD crime novels; three published and a fourth nearing completion. All are available on Amazon in paperback and on kindle.
I received this message in my email and thanks to you I found out it was a big hoax!Thank you Online Threat Alerts!
I received this message and I knew it was a hoax!
I received one I 2019. It was from the Obama presenting her with the medal. Offered $250,000. Feed back please. Real or not real. Send to my messenger page. Whoever wrote this article.
I was duped by this scam out of desperation of financial hardship. It said I wont be charged but immediately I was charged $1 then within seconds $2.95, then again I just received an alert that another $2.95 was charged on my credit card. I can't afford this as I'm on SSI and receive food benefits from numerous heart attacks and other health issues. As I feel its Facebook's responsibility to maintain a safe environment and failed to do so. I also feel that Ellen herself is at fault for knowing there are these scams but taking little to no actions to prevent this from happening.
I am sorry you got scammed, but it also your responsibility to do research.
I was told I won $200,00.00 from your fan giveaway xI’m so depressed. I m an intelligent elderly woman who has had so much bad luck that it was easy for me to believe, it looked so real. My daughters stole my life, then my $ money shoved me into an adult sr living apt. I didn’t pay the bill to where I owed &50,000.00, kept canceling my medical appointments, and left me without a penny for about 10 months. My director found out I’d been physically and mentally abused by them and all the aforementioned setbacks and turned it into the co. It’s all in the courts now and I figured no more could go wrong. I thought my world was back,Ok it’s not. I hope you get them... I’m crushed. I was sent from home to home as a foster child and humiliated because I was an Indian child... now I’m back in foster home at 69.Please catch these animals.Jeanine H...Minnetonka MNn
There's another one using her profile to up load music just recently I really thought it was true not to sure now
I got a phone call at 5:00 in the morning telling me I won his name was Charles Baker and he was going to send me a picture of the check. I told him it was against the law to telemarket call this early and hung up
This is what I recieved on messenger:”Congratulations to the people I commented on,You were chosen as the winner for today. You will receive a gift from me personally follow the steps below.Step 1, you must like and share with 3 of your friends. After you share, please follow (Step 2)Step 2, please register here hxxps://bit.ly/2S8qu4vNext, wait a few minutes to receive the prize. And the gift will be sent after you successfully register (this is real and official) God bless you ...SPECIAL GIVEAWAY "Ellen DeGeneres" ON APRIL 2020 CONGRATULATION! REGISTER NOW TO WIN CASH MONEYELLEN-GIVE-AWAY-MONEY1.BLOGSPOT.COMSPECIAL GIVEAWAY "Ellen DeGeneres" ON APRIL 2020 CONGRATULATION! REGISTER NOW TO WIN CASH MONEY"
