Bet you will not share me because I am disabled
Scam
There are scammers out there that will use kids or someone disabled to get you to share a post so they can make money.
The post will look harmless but they are trying to work on your sympathy.
Here is how they manage to pull the scam. (I am going to use one of many scenerios to explain)
A mother posts a picture of her handicap son or daughter on Facebook. A scammer downoads the photo (if a person has access to the photo, he can download or make a copy of it legally and illegally. There is no way to prevent it. Even if you use software to prevent downloading it. It can still be stolen)
Here is a scenerio to describe how it is done.
Lisa has a disabled son. She posts on her wall a picture of him. Bob
(the scammer) sees it. He
downloads a copy of the picture of him in a wheelchair .
Bob creates a page on Facebook with the picture he stole
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Then innocent caring people will see the image and feel bad for the kid especially when they see the message that no one will share it. People will then share the page with everyone.
When the number of shares and/or likes get to a certain level, the scammer will make changes to the page that he shared with everyone.
He will take out the picture of the disabled kid and substitute a product like a piece of furniture. and make the entire page look like it is a sales ad for that product. Then they will sell the ad to a company that thinks they are buying a successful ad for the product because of all the likes on the page, but they are actually being scammed. That is because the likes were on the disabled kid and not the furniture.
This may not be a very good example but it
gives you an idea how they scam you.
A good rule of thumb is that if you see a post on Facebook that is
trying to guilt trip you, chances are it is a scam.
Here is another example of what is going around
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