Steven Bartlett is the latest name to get spoofed in the Tony Terry / Robby Robinson Facebook podcast scam. If you’ve gotten an e-mail inviting you to be a podcast guest on Facebook live for $3,000, delete, block, run away as fast as you can.

Steven Bartlett is a real person and not associated with this scam. They have stolen his name and are just using him, posing as his manager.

The E-mail from Steve Bartlet

This is what the Steven Bartlet Scam e-mail looks like:

Dear Candy Keane,

This is Steven Bartlett’s Management.

We are happy to invite you to participate in our online podcast event which is hosted by Steven Bartlett. 

In the podcast session, we will discuss the ups and downs of life, struggles in life, the best thing about your passion, the captivating narratives spun by authors and writers, the way of success that you pursued, the remarkable journey of entrepreneurship, human rights, and social issues, including socialism. You can also talk about your lifestyle, thoughts, and personality. We have selected our podcast platform as Facebook, and it will be live on Facebook pages.

We are pleased to offer a $ 3,000 compensation for your participation in the podcast episode.

We are sure that you have something special to share with our audience and don’t want to miss out on this opportunity. So, please join us as a guest speaker on this unique podcast. We believe that such conversations are essential and offer the opportunity to be enlightening and empowering, which is why we are inviting you to take part in this event.
Concerning scheduling: The event is scheduled to take place daily from October 28th to November 3rd. Two time slots in Pacific Standard Time (PST):

Slot 1: 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM PST
Slot 2: 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM PST

Feel free to select the slot that aligns with your availability.

We would be honored to have you join us for this very important podcast session. Please feel free to bring any questions or ideas you would like to discuss.

Best Regards
Dom Murray, Steven Bartlett’s Management Team

They Will Steal Your Facebook Page

The e-mails from Tony Terry and Robby Robinson are similar, but with different topics. It’s all the same scam though!

If you do book a time with them, they will contact you to set up Facebook live in advance. They will ask you to screen share, where they will helpfully walk you through the process of stealing your Facebook page without your knowledge.

A recent scam victim and well-known blogger with a Facebook page of over 350k followers contacted me asking about the scam this morning. The scammers were trying to reel in very big fish, but she caught on before they could totally take over. They did, however, manage to switch out her payment account and delete her bank account that would normally get her subscription payments.

When I got her message this morning, I wanted to get this post up ASAP in hopes the name will start popping up for other people searching to check and see if this offer is legit. She did try searching first, and everything that popped up about Steven Bartlett made it seem like this was a legit offer. As of this morning, she is actually still dealing with the scammers and trying to figure out where her payments are going to go.

Her experience also gives some more insight into the things they can do once they take over your page. I hadn’t even considered the option of stealing your subscription payments, because I haven’t activated subscriptions on my page.

I hope you found this post before you got scammed! Facebook is notoriously impossible to reach, and it takes a huge effort to get any kind of customer service support.

If they took your page, try to get to a live person. Try going through every avenue possible until you reach someone. They keep changing how to do it, and keep changing the location of the links so unfortunately, I can’t point you in any sort of helpful direction. The only thing I can do is get the word out about these awful people and their scam tactics.

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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