The newest scam to pop up in my inbox is an e-mail from “Liam,” claiming to be Tony Terry’s manager representing an online musical concert to be held on Facebook. The event is supposedly sponsored by Nike, and they offered to pay me $2,000 for each episode. Wow, how could I not pass up this amazing opportunity to get my Facebook page stolen again? lol
Latest Update: This scam is still going on, but they’ve added a new twist. I recently got an e-mail with the same premise from the “manager” of the podcast FreshandFit Maimi. I pretended to be interested and booked the Zoom call with them. When it came through, the title still had Tony Terry’s name on it! So it is the SAME scammers, just trying a new name now that people are catching on to the Tony Terry scam.
Tony Terry Online Musical Concert Scam
The text of the initial e-mail goes like this:
“It’s an online event sponsored by Nike where we can do the online podcast; it will be a random discussion about music, dance entertainment, public life, nature, struggles of life, etc. beside you, there will be 4 or 5 more artists from different parts of the world will be joining us. It’s paid event. We will pay you USD 2k for each episode; max 1-hour podcast Event will be held from 20 Mar till 30 Mar every day, 8 pm till 10 pm Est. Please let us know when you are available on these days we can set you up for any day you want. It’s live on Facebook, and all the artists will be joining from their respective Facebook pages; nearly 2 million people will watch that for sure. Thanks.”
Regards, Liam Dawson
Tony Terry Management
I suspected a scam, but of course I replied back for research purposes and let them know I was interested. Here’s the reply:
Hey Candy,
Thank you for your email and for confirming your availability for our online musical event on March 20th. We will send you the event details shortly, including the exact time of your episode.
Regarding your question, we already have a Facebook event organized by Mr. Tony Terry and you can find it on the Paid online event in your Facebook professional dashboard. We understand that you may have additional questions or concerns, and we would be happy to schedule a Zoom meeting to discuss these further. Please let us know your availability, and we will coordinate a time that works for both of us.
I appreciate your interest, and we look forward to having you join our event.
Regards, Liam Dawson
Tony Terry Management
A quick visit to Tony Terry’s Facebook page proved it was a scam:
Another scam exposed!
I hope you found this post BEFORE you changed any of your Facebook settings and let them into your page. I have contacted the person who posted to find out how she got her page back, so hopefully I’ll have that info to share with you all soon. Just remember, never let anyone “help” you change your Facebook settings! The only thing they’ll be helping is to relieve you of is your page ownership.
**And if you are reading this and it saved you the headache of losing your page, please drop a comment and let me know! You can also find me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/sewgeekmama (cosplay) and www.facebook.com/geekmamasblog (mom blog)
Another Message from Tony Terry
Oh look- I got another message from Tony Terry today! I guess they forgot about our march date, lol.
About the Author
Candy Keane is a digital content creator and long-time cosplayer, most well-known for being on the cover of the Star Wars documentary Jedi Junkies. After making costumes professionally for over a decade, she now writes about geek culture and mom life, and continues to cosplay for fun, while sharing her love of costumes on Instagram @SewGeekMama. Her first children’s book, I’m Going to My First Comic Convention, was published in 2020 and won a Story Monsters Approved award for Excellence in Literature.
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Thank you so much for your post. They contacted me too. I think Tony Terry should issue a statement against this scam. They re spoiling his name.
Thank you for commenting! I was wondering if people were going to be able to find my post about this. When I tried searching I found nothing so I shared my story.
Yeah I got it today too. Sounded like a scam. I’m glad I found this post.
Glad you found the post! 🙂
Yep they almost got me! I am a stand-up comic and have been paid to do online events in the past but this one seemed fishy! Glad I searched this.
Glad you found the post before falling for their scam!
Got one today.
I guess it is still going around then! Been a little while since someone commented so I was wondering.
I got an email today but did not respond to it but posted the scam on my Band Facebook Page showing the email I got.
Good idea to share it and get the word out there!
Bless you for sharing. I was quite sure this was legit. Thanks!!
I questioned it at first as well! It took a bit of digging to get the truth, and now they keep deleting the posts on the page where people warn others. So I’m glad you found my post!
Glad this article is here. Gordan Wheeler was my guy. May 2nd was when we received this email.
Glad you found it! When I tried searching there was no info so I wanted to get the word out.
Got one too. So glad I found this!
Glad to hear the post is being found 🙂
Gosh , I instead got a call from my previous manager (who was working for a reputed agency here in India before he quit). So he calls me and tell me about this online paid event by Nike (think he also got scammed into believing it’s real, don’t think he is part of the scam ). Then a zoom meeting gets set up between us and this “tony terry” to explain the details of the paid event by the “the culture of music , entertainment “. This manager of Tony Terry has kept his video off and is only audible. He speaks good English sounds like he is from the west. And told me the basic idea behind the event. Everything sounded genuine. Then later I’m not able to find this paid event section in my FB page. Then my manager tells me he will help me find it , so I give him partial access. He is unable to find it. He has a talk with this “tony” guy and he is told that they require my password to be able to locate the paid event in my FB page😂. I am glad I didn’t fall for that. Instead just kept quiet. Then my manager said he can get Tony to guide me over a zoom call to help locate it. I said ok. That zoom call is still pending still long. I get a doubt and I search n then I found this. Thank you to writing this blog !!
So glad to hear you didn’t give out your password! And thanks for posting your experience so people can read exactly how they are scamming people.
I got the same Email. They trying to steal my brothers artist page. Thank you!
Glad you didn’t fall for it!
Wow! I just got this email. I’m a kid so I appreciate your information very much.
@jonahhands
Glad you found the post! Btw, I clicked your link and your crochet skills are pretty awesome! I’d love to feature you on the blog. I’d just send you a few interview questions for the post. Let me know if you are interested :).
My grandma taught me to crochet when I was little but I didn’t keep up with it. Very cool to see all the things you’ve done with it!
Hey Candy! I fell victim to this and feel so stupid.. They still have full control of my account even after I filed a report with FB… I was wondering if you might be able to tell me how the woman you mentioned got her account back? I’ve cancelled my CC that was attached to my page, but am wondering what their other angle is for the hack…
Would love some insight if you have the time to give it! Thank you!
Sorry to hear they got you! I asked the woman how she got her page back, but she didn’t respond unfortunately. I do know the best way to do it is to try and speak to a live person. You can usually reach them through your ad account.
My guess is their angle is to use the stolen page for ads. That’s what happened when my page was stolen (by a different scam). Weird posts and videos were being posted. So keep an eye on your page and report anything you see posted. And good luck! I hope you can get your page back.
Thank god I was wise enough in the call not to do this. They caught me in a pretty vulnerable personal moment too — what absolute garbage people.
Yes, totally garbage people! Glad you to hear you didn’t go through with it.
Though I should clarify I’m not 100% sure I’m OK. In the Zoom call, he asked me to screenshare, which I declined. Then when he tried to show me how to ‘allow access’ for online events and I noticed that he was essentially asking me to allow access to my page. I declined. The call ended with him asking me to do it later and he hung up. I’m 90% sure I’m OK. But since I’m not 100% sure and this is my entire livelihood it looks like I’ll be staying up all night until I know for sure. -.- Yay.
I know it can be heart pounding to think your page might get stolen! But as long as you didn’t allow access you will be fine. But, always a good idea to keep an eye on it anyway!
This happened to me in March, and I still haven’t been able to get my page back, as Facebook makes it impossible, tells you to be patient and then closes the case after all the months of telling you to be patient and even having you send your ID to verify your identity. So if anyone found out how to get it back please let me know
Sorry to hear you haven’t gotten your page back! Usually you can get it back after speaking to a person and sending in your ID. I’m not sure what else there is that you can try.
Yep. I just got hit up by someone saying he was Tony Baker’s manager and had the same story about paying 2K for an hour podcast
He wanted to schedule a zoom call for tomorrow. I did a search, found this, and blocked and reported him on Instagram
Thanks very much for putting this out there for us to see
Glad you found the post! And thank you for commenting 🙂
Yep. Almost fell for it as well this morning.
apparently now it’s Nicholas James who “works for Tony Baker”
mine looked like this:
It smelled sketchy. I did stupidly click the FB and IG icons under the word Management and they went to Baker’s FB and IG pages. Hopefully that didn’t put me at risk in any way; I don’t think so. I think they put that there to “legitimize” their email.
I didn’t write them back nor give any info anywhere, so I think I’m safe. i Did some research and found this page. Thanks for the heads-up and posting.
So apparently Tony Baker is the 2024 version of this scam.