Woman shares cautionary tale about being scammed by someone claiming to be Jacob Soboroff
Jane Head has always been a big fan of NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff.
Jane Head has always been a big fan of NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff. When she posted a message on the journalist’s verified Facebook page and got a response from someone claiming to be Jacob, she was pretty psyched.
“I was elated. It was just like, oh my gosh,” she told TODAY in a segment that aired on Jan. 25.
Alas, it wasn’t Jacob, and the person imitating the journalist quickly encouraged Head to private message them on WhatsApp instead of the public Facebook page.
After connecting in May 2023, the pair exchanged thousands of messages over the course of six months. Head, who lives in Tennessee, said she was in communication with the impostor “almost every day” and there were days when they were in contact “all day long.”
Head’s daughter was skeptical that a network news correspondent with a hectic schedule could find the time to chat with her — and her instincts proved to be right.
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