Here’s The New Scam That Soft-Hearted Texans Are Falling For

Man, it is super-low to play upon the emotions of people.

Here's What's Happening

Over the last two weeks, I've seen two different instances of this scam. What ultimately happens is people share the posts, and then the scammers will change the contents to some type of clickable ad or something else that results in you getting a huge helping of malware on your computer.

Here's A Serious Clue

How was I able to recognize this as a scam? Well, no one that I know of uses the phrase "bump up" and so far it's been used every single time I've seen one of these things. I'm sure in the future scammers will change this language but the goal is to get you to share it any way you can to spread the malware.

It's Pretty Low

Can you imagine that you went out of your way to help an injured animal or a kidnapped kid and you ended up having your computer infected or your bank account drained because of it? I have no idea what the F.B.I. does on a day-to-day basis, but I certainly hope that they have a department in charge of tracking people like this down.

Don't Lose Your Faith

The worst thing that can come of something like this is for you to not try to help people and pets in the future. The world needs people like you who will at least pass along a message when you're trying to help. Just keep in mind the source of your information and if there are any "telling moments" in the text like the whole "bump up" thing.