When dogs, children and pensioners are included the scam travels further and faster as more people try to help
Concerned members of the public across Northern Ireland are being scammed by social media posts about a pensioner who is said to be lost with his little dog.
Here's how the scam works: In this case, posing under various aliases, the scammers claim a pensioner called Benson S Bell, 74, is suffering from senile dementia and is lost with his dog and does not know where he is going. And when dogs, children and pensioners are included in the claims, they travel further and faster as more people try to help.
DogsLive tracked down the unwitting man in the photo used in this scam and discovered his photograph was being reproduced across social media without his knowledge, to create the fake cry for help. Every other post about Mr Jones AKA Benson S Bell, is fake and designed to make readers feel emotionally involved to increase user interaction by fraudsters and sadly Mr Jones has no control over any of it.
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