This story was first published on February 11, 2015
According to this message, which purports to be from “the Facebook Company”, you must send the same message on to twenty people to “stay active”. The message warns that your account will be disconnected if you do not send the message as instructed.
It also advises you to call a listed customer support number if you suspect that the message is fake.
Of course, the message certainly is a fake and a quite crudely rendered fake at that. It mirrors a number of earlier hoaxes that claim that Facebook or another online service will terminate your account if you do not send a message to a specified number of people.
Any message that makes such a claim is certain to be a hoax. No legitimate company is ever likely to ask users to prove that they are active by sending on a silly message.
This version may be a rather lame attempt to trick gullible recipients into calling a scammer or telemarketer.
Searches on the listed number indicate that it comes from Wichita, Kansas. I have placed several calls to the number but always received a ‘busy’ signal. Contact analytics website OkCaller.com lists the number as ‘Not Safe’, a label that indicates that a number is a “problematical contact”.
Perhaps the dumbest part of this hoax is the implication that you can actually call Facebook “Support” and get a human support person to answer.
Later versions tack on the absurd and utterly unrelated warning that you should not add a specified Facebook user as a friend because he or she is is a kidnapper.
If you receive this silly hoax message, do not share it with others. Let the sender know that the claims in the message are nonsense. And don’t call the number.
Examples:
If you get a request for Sunny Boyie do not accept, he is a kidnapper Send this to all your friends Hello, we are the company Facebook. You must send this message to 20 people to stay active. If you don’t, you will be disconnected from Facebook if you think this is fake check the customer service # 3166-91-9111
hey look if you get a request for malachi cooper do not accept he is a kidnapper Send this to all your friends Hello, we are the company Facebook … You must send this message to 20 people to stay active. If you dont do this u will be disconnected from facebook if you think this is fake check the customer service of this number 3166-91-9111
hey look if you get a request for Austin gault do not accept he is a kidnapper Send this to all your friends Hello, we are the company Facebook … You must send this message to 20 people to stay active. If you dont do this u will be disconnected from facebook if you think this is fake check the customer service of this number 3166-91-9111
Hey hey look if you get a request for gabriel montoya not accept xq is a kidnapper Send this to all your friends Hello, we are the company Facebook … You must send this message to 20 people to stay active. If you do this I will be disconnected from facebook if you think this is fake check the customer service of this number 3166-91-9111
Hello, we are the Facebook company… You will have to send this message to 20 people to stay active. If you dont do this your acount will be disconected. If you think this is fake please call customer support on this number: 316-691-9111 Thank you for choosing Facebook as your social media app.
Original Source : https://www.hoax-slayer.net/facebook-hoax-send-message-twenty-people-stay-active/