![]() Shortly after the scam attack, they released the single Why Won’t My Brain Stop, now bitterly tainted with the unrelenting frustration that they fell for the scam. The album takes the journey through a day but tackles themes of parental cycle breaking, mental health issues and insomnia. Especially as this is in the lead-up to their next album, AMPM, coming out June 9 on Fallen Tree Records. It’s so frustrating.”Ī forced break from Facebook may seem like a dream to some, but it’s turned into a nightmare for a band that has found it is the platform they get the best engagement and community. We thought we’d done our due diligence, but just one extra step, trawling through the comments on the podcasters page, would have shown us it was a scam. “I’ve cried a lot through frustration and loss of control. “It’s been really upsetting,” said Austin. Now, over a full month later, Meta has taken down the page, and Austin has been locked out of her personal Facebook account, meaning she can’t even log in to check in on family and friends or send and receive business messages through Meta’s companion app Messenger. Within days, Greek political interference campaigns, disinformation and fake news was being spread from the Big Little Lions page through paid adverts. Within hours neither the band, their label or managers could access the page. The band now believes that was the step that allowed the fraudsters to gain access. They were told to add an “Online Event” profile to their business profile’s administrators. One of the host’s tech crews video-chatted the band through those configuration changes, adjusting their Meta (Facebook’s owner) business profile. The message linked to a verified Facebook page, and the named host does, indeed, present a podcast – it all checked out.Īfter booking their performance time, the band was told they’d have to configure their Facebook Page to allow a simulcast event so that the performance would be on both the host and Big Little Lions’ page. When scammers purporting to be a renowned singer-turned-podcast host offered the folk-pop duo Big Little Lions a sponsored live-stream opportunity in early March, the band was naturally interested. Helen Austin of Big Little Lions reached out to the Record with the following submission, detailing the ordeal for use as “a cautionary tale” in hopes that by publishing their misfortune, others will pay heed. What Big Little Lions experienced was an elaborate hack. Technically, it’s not a hack at all – it’s a duplication. The suspected end game is to use that cloned account to spread malware and scam other Facebook users. Usually, it involves a third party cloning an account, then making friend requests. ![]() Most Facebook users have either been hacked themselves or know someone who has. The new Facebook page is /biglittlelionsmusic
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