Action News Jax has investigated an online trend causing a local cybercrime lawyer to recommend that all social media users take warning.
Over the last few weeks, we’ve found dozens of social media posts claiming to support local car detailing businesses. But all of the posts have almost the exact same caption, many have the same pictures, and we’ve noticed they’re now popping up in Facebook groups across the country.
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The template of the social media posts are all, essentially the same: the user making the post claims to be a recent customer of a car detailing business supposedly owned by a young man who started the business to support his mother after his father died. After reverse searching both the captions and the pictures of these posts, we’ve found dozens of duplicates of those posts from users around the country, using nearly the same word-for-word captions and many of the same images, although supporting different businesses.
Curtis Fallgatter, a former chief assistant federal prosecutor and current cybercrimes attorney in Jacksonville, said this could be a method to play on your emotions as a way to make money…