NEW SCAM ON OUR CRUISE! (Would you fall for it?)

As a legitimate cancer survivor (8 years!) it infuriates me when people use cancer to scam money from people. It's just an evil thing to do.

Moderators should delete all posts that try to sell something. When I moderated a group, it was a rule: no soliciting. So when a post popped up, I deleted it. Also, if I see a post that is soliciting, I report it to the moderators. Nobody needs to sell anything on a FB group. Thanks for the alert!

OR Just do not buy things from people in social media. 9 times out of 10 it is a scam. Save your money do not fall for lies.

I see this every single day because I belong to the FB groups for all my cruises - I have 8 coming up right now. The most common one is, "Can't make it - selling ducks. PM me." Next is, "I'm going to have to fly in - selling tumblers." And the next one is selling t-shirts. One scam has someone saying their kid is autistic and the shirts are to raise money for them. In most cases they turn off commenting so nobody can say "this is a scam - do not DM them." It is SO annoying and frustrating. I report them every time and the good admins remove them right away. Unfortunately, they even get in past the filters you have to answer to get into some groups. Every time I see it my heart sinks, especially when I see how many people saw it and liked it, having no idea how many people actually DM'd them.

I recently set up a sail group for a cruise we’re in next year, and I added very specific rules that nobody is to try and sell anything. Zero tolerance, I’ll be removing anyone who gets through (and I set some trip specific questions to get in in the first place). Some groups are riddled with fake tshirt tales because the admins got bored and walked away. Funny how travel agents see my rules and then decide not to sign up afterall ha.

I’m always reporting the T-Shirt scam to the admins. Last time I did, just before the post and “ person” was deleted from the group - the scammer actually threatened me. Told me they would sue me if I continued to say bad things. What a joke. Glad I got a rise out of them!!

Very informative and needed, thank you Jordan😊🙏🏾

JJ Cruise. This was a very timely and informative post. I was a very naive cruiser and was recently scammed out of $70 dollars buying some tumblers that were advertised on my cruise face book page. It was a lesson for me and one I won’t make again. At 72 years old I used to be a trusting person but sadly these days I no longer am.

I have personally only seen this from people I know, and they always said you could pay them cash in person. I would never send money online to someone I didn't know. Good of you to share this with everyone, since everyone is not so savvy!

Scammers make me so mad!!!

Thank you for the heads up

Thanks for this information... sad but needed.

As an admin on a public group with 41K members it is imperitive that people report stuff that needs to be taken down. There are only 2 of us and we could never keep up with our loyal "family" members letting us know about things they see. We have gotten everything from R rated pictures to people selling stuff or bulling other people. It is sad that adults can't act like an adult.

Thank you for the warning!

Thank you for sharing this information with everyone

First of all, nobody's allowed to bring commercial merchandise or make sales on board. Even if someone's legit, they may have their stuff confiscated and or get kicked off the ship.

Such good advice!!! Thank you. Love you guys

Thanks guys. Always helpful

Great advice. Thank you.

thanks for the tip