Two Fake Accounts of Scammers Pretending to be Me Were Found on Facebook

Thanks to an author who contacted me last night, I became aware of two scammers on Facebook who are pretending to be me. I have a huge favor to ask of those of you who are on FB. Will you please report these as fake accounts?

Here are the fake accounts:

https://www.facebook.com/ruthnordin01

and

https://www.facebook.com/gaddafi.sele.5

Apparently, these scammers are sending messages on FB and trying to use my name to phish for personal information and/or purchase marketing services. The author who told me about this didn’t let the scam go far, which is a relief. I would hate for anyone to be duped into doing something that is not in their best interest.

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I have created a FB account to help counteract this nonsense.

Now, I have decided to go ahead and create a FB account to help counteract this. I remember years ago that an author had the hardest time getting a fake account removed. She had to get on FB, too. So I am trying to stop these scammers, too.

I have not been on FB for years, so I wasn’t able to create a username. My profile doesn’t have a neat username after the “.com/” part. It has a series of numbers and symbols. But this one is my legitimate profile.

I used a newer picture of myself for the profile picture.

I am with my husband and kids, but I focused in on my face. So look for the short person on the right with the black hat.

And I used this cover photo:

If you see those two things, you know you’re on the right profile.

I’m not too happy with that cover photo, but it’s the best I could come up with on short notice.

I wanted something to quickly help let you know you can trust the profile, and to do that, I had to use pictures I have never used before on any social media platform.

Here is the link to my legitimate profile page:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61562385772267

I feel so out of touch with how FB works. I’m not sure if they will allow self-promotion, but I will use this profile to let people know about my books. I don’t have much of an exciting life personally. My books and the characters are real interesting parts.

If you want to friend me on FB, please send me an invite. I’m afraid to extend an invite right now since these scammers have already gathered quite a few “friends”. Once this all settles down, I’ll start extending invites myself.

I hope that all makes sense. I’m writing this late for me. I should have been in bed two hours ago. But I wanted to alert everyone on what’s happening before the scammers are able to reach anyone else.