Bob, I'm really impressed that you would remember the first line of your
high school song - I certainly couldn't !
...Wayne
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From: olympus
[mailto:olympus-bounces+wayne.harridge=structuregraphs.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
] On Behalf Of Bob Whitmire
Sent: Saturday, 8 April 2017 3:55 AM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] OT : Facebook friend request
Agree. If you didn't initiate a friend request, there's no reason why this
fellow should have received one from you. <g> There are all sorts of
variations on this game. If I get an e-mail notification that someone has
put in a friend request to me on FB, I go to my FB page and check it. I
still get caught from time to time. Last week I got a friend request from a
guy I went to high school with. Right picture, right info. I accepted. A day
or so later I noticed I had a message from him, one of those messenger
things, not a post on my timeline. It was a 'how are you?' kind of thing. I
say I was okay, 'you?' The response was interesting. He was fine and wanted
to share some really good news with me. I wrote back and asked if he was
real, or a robot. He said he was real. I figured he wasn't. So I asked for
the first line of our high school song. I was almost instantaneously
unfriended.
Harumph. <g>
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, John, I do remember Andrew Dacey.
>
> When you say you "received a Facebook message" I assume that it was an
> email purporting to come from Facebook, in which case someone's PC
> somewhere has been compromised, allowing access to email addresses on
> the PC. My expectation is that the email you have received is most
> likely not from Facebook (even if it appears to have come from
> Facebook), and is attempting to persuade you to confirm or deny the
> friendship (or have some kind of
> interaction) by clicking on the link it provides. The link will NOT go
> to Facebook, though it will certainly claim to do so.
>
> Whether or not you have a Facebook account, a link with Andrew, an
> outstanding friend request or whatever is utterly irrelevant - whoever
> crafted the email is assuming you most likely do exhibit one or more
> of those attributes, and can be expected to click.
>
> Don't.
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus
> [mailto:olympus-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of John Hudson
> Sent: 07 April 2017 15:09
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: [OM] OT : Facebook friend request
>
> Does anyone remember Andrew Dacey, a former, or an existing but
> lurking, member of this list?
>
> To my knowledge his last known location was Halifax, Nova Scotia.
>
> This morning I received a Facebook message saying that :
>
> "Just a reminder that Andrew has confirmed your friend request and
> you're now friends on Facebook."
>
>
> The issue is that (1) I am not a Facebook user other than dropping by
> the pages of a few family relatives, (2) I have never put a "friend"
> request to Andrew, (3) Andrew has never put a "friend" request to me
> or if he has I have never responded.
>
> So, does anyone have any idea about what might drive a spurious FB
> message such as the one I received?
>
> Needless to say I have not, and will not, respond to the incoming
message.
>
>
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