The Guest Who Won't Leave

How to Evict a Scam Account That Won't Stay Blocked. A fake-giveaway farm offered me $90,000 for my home address — then kept coming back from every block, in new shells, for months. Facebook's profile reports all came back 'nothing wrong.' This is the protocol that worked anyway: the three settings that seal your account in one evening (friend requests, stranger messages, comment moderation), the thirty-second report-and-block drill that got a scam page actually removed, and the honest warning nobody gives you — it gets louder before it gets quiet. Written from a live infestation, with the receipts. By Rob Greves.