Scammers can use people who share these posts as their next targets.
CHALMETTE, La. — It all started with a post on Instagram of a man in the hospital.
The caption read, “Help needed identifying this gentleman who was mugged, stabbed and left for dead on the roadside in Chalmette. He is in a coma right now and the deputies are not able to identify him. Let’s bump this post so it may reach his family and friends.”
Eyewitness News reached out to the St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office who said the post was “not legit.”
Then, we found out a post just like it recently caused a storm on social media.
Law enforcement agencies in Texas and Tennessee made posts on Facebook warning their communities about a post with the same type of caption. However, in that case, the photo shared was of a woman in the hospital.
Come to find out, that photo was pulled from a woman’s blog.
So, where did the photo of the man who was supposedly left for dead in Chalmette come from?
Eyewitness News did a quick search and found that he was a father featured in an online U.K. news publication.
But why would someone want to…
