Scammers are using your social media information against you

Kathy Egan news@greenepublishing.com There is another scam affecting people in our area. This is what happens: someone texts you with a conversational tone and says something friendly, as if they know you. You answer and they engage you with small talk. If you say something like, “Who is this,” the scammer uses the name of a person he got from your Facebook friends list or some other social media profile. Eventually, the texting scammer will ask for money, usually prompting you to use one