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Market Basket Warns Customers of Facebook Scam
New England-based supermarket chain Market Basket is warning the public of a fake Facebook profile using a store promotion to try and scam customers out of sensitive information.
According to a post on the official Market Basket Facebook page, there is a “newly created and unauthorized Facebook profile” using the Market Basket name and logo to contact customers posing as the official page.
“This (fraudulent) page has been sending friend requests to our customers and has been asking for sensitive information as a requirement to enter our Drink Up, Work Out giveaway,” Market Basket wrote.
Photograph by Lydialyle Gibson
“I’m really here today, not just as the president of Harvard, but also as the child of immigrants,” Lawrence Bacow said Friday, joining nearly a dozen other speakers including U.S. senators Ed Markey (Massachusetts) and Angus King (Maine), and Massachusetts congresswoman Ayanna Pressley taking part in a New England-focused virtual summit to advocate for comprehensive immigration reform. Several hundred listeners logged on to hear testimony from elected officials, businesspeople, activists, DACA recipients, and essential workers. Nirva Sajous, an undocumented immigrant from Haiti with temporary protected status who is a health-care worker at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and at an assisted-living senior center, talked about the extra stress and insecurity that the pandemic has added to her life. Javier Juarez, a DACA recipient, spoke about his journey from Lima, Peru, to college at Brown University and a job at an advocacy organizatio
Brighton mother receives keys to brighter future
Tom Kupfer
Imagine trying to live a productive life without reliable transportation. From buying groceries to maintaining steady employment, daily life would be a struggle. Thankfully for one Brighton mother, her family’s transportation struggles are now over.
Sedenia Sanchez was awarded a life-changing car from the vehicle donation nonprofit Good News Garage. Her used 2012 Mazda 5, donated by a generous New Englander, will transport her family to a brighter future. Sanchez is one of over 5,000 recipients of a vehicle from Good News Garage since the New England-based charity began providing reliable transportation to neighbors in need in 1996.