Don't post pictures of your grandma's life savings on FACEBOOK?
Quickly attracting unwanted attention from criminals, a teenager in Australia failed to use her common sense when posting a photo on Facebook.
As mentioned by the BBC News recently, a 17-year-old girl was visiting her grandmother in Sydney, Australia when she took a picture of a ”large sum of cash” while helping her grandmother count her cash savings at the home. The teenager posted the picture on her Facebook feed around 4 p.m. on Thursday May 24. Approximately seven hours later, two masked men armed with a wooden club and a knife entered the girl’s family home 75 miles away in the town of Bundanoon. Upon entering the family home, the men found the 47-year-old mother of the girl as well as a 58-year-old man and 14-year-old boy, likely her father and brother
Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/teenage-girl-posts-picture-of-cash-on-facebook-family-robbed-within-hours/#ixzz21Yvgp8M7
Quoting janessa27:Some people put their every movement on FB- drives me crazy. Let's tell the world when we are going on vacation, that we bought the huge flat screen tv, or.....a picture of all this cash. Yeah not a smart idea.
Tsk tsk. I always tell my kids don't tell anyone what you do have because you never know who will be jealous or who will find a way to take it from you.
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- SisterPeach
on Jul. 24, 2012 at 1:32 PM