How does a pig butcher have an 11-year-old Facebook account?

by philg

Here’s one of my recent Facebook posts (from Stuart, Florida, recently named “Best Coastal Small Town” by USA Today):

Then there is the standard-for-Facebook-these-days pig butcher at the bottom:

Hi! Philip I noticed you popped up on my social media feed recently and we seem to have a lot of the same interests. Btw do we know each other? Hopefully we can build some positive interactions here!

Here’s the young lady (URL: https://www.facebook.com/amiana.muah) who shares my passions:

(Does it make sense to quote a famous venereal disease sufferer on the subject of “the sensual life”?)

What I find interesting is “Joined July 2013”. How does a scammer have an 11-year-old Facebook account? Amiana Muah (based on the URL) had an account in 2013 and his/her/zir/their credentials were stolen? It doesn’t seem plausible that a scammer would sign up for a Facebook account in 2013 and not use it for 10 years (it looks as though “Anne Graf”‘s posts started on May 1, 2023. We are informed that Meta leads the world in AI, but hasn’t been able to figure out that this account is fake after almost 1.5 years of posts).

11 thoughts on “How does a pig butcher have an 11-year-old Facebook account?”

  1. Probably because 90% of the internet is male, all the scam accounts are women. Lions now automatically ignore all women because they’re all fake. What are the chances democrats swap their fake candidate again in November & put in a man?

  2. Someone created a Facebook account in 2013. Someone might have and still be creating tons of Facebook a future scam investment strategy. It might be this scammer or it may be somebody in the scamming industry who simply makes a living out of planting the seeds for future scams and then selling off the product. Don’t shortchange the ingenuity scammers.

    This reminds me of the following strategy in the mutual fund industry:

    1. Silently create a 100 mutual funds with a token, private investment.

    2. Wait five years, silently close all the funds with disappointing results.

    3. Publicly promote all the funds with above average results and their successful track record.

    Survivorship bias for the win!

  3. It’s kind of sad, but a lot of people find their Facebook and Instagram (gee, same company, hmmm) account(s) stolen and then renamed/altered for use by these scammers. Every now and then I get a cryto (or whatever) trading DM from some photographer I know, only to find that someone stole their Instagram account and are trying to scam all of their followers. So, the one you saw was more likely an older, stolen account rather than a newer fake (which still abound). If the account was from “yesterday” (as many are), I suppose far fewer people would try to interact with it?

    • TS: Should I respond to her that I’m really passionate about cryptocurrency and that I hope she shares that interest? Also that my hobby is sending wire transfers?

    • Should I respond to her that I’m really passionate about cryptocurrency and that I hope she shares that interest? Yes!
      Also that my hobby is sending wire transfers? Yes!

  5. Very common for bot networks on facebook to use stolen accounts, especially inactive accounts where the original owner is unlikely to complain. In any case, they immediately change the contact details which prevents ordinary people from reclaiming their account and build a current history of generic posts usually stolen from instagram. There is of course no real way to reach anyone at facebook to resolve the issue.

  7. In this day and age, why is everyone who commented on this post is assuming Anne Graf is a “she”?

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