Several posts urging help to find the owner of the tiny urn containing the ashes of Zachary Levi Bowers came forward on Facebook as a user found personal belongings in a parking lot. However, due to their peculiar nature, the contents were later labeled as scams.
The photos of the urn began circulating on August 27, 2024, when user Alex Corey initially uploaded the incident through his account. His profile mentioned that Corey had been a member of the Airdrie selling page since August 24, 2024.
Later, the account deleted the pictures, but other pages quickly reported the story, as Fluvanna Yard Sale, 559 Buy Sell Trade Free, Donna Park, and Harpersville Online Yard Sale posted pictures with similar captions.
Moreover, the picture showcased a tiny urn with the engraving Zachery Levi Bowers 9/26/1981- 9/18/2019, held by a person whose face wasn’t revealed on the Facebook post.
The reposts of the picture read, “We found this tiny urn with the name Zachary Levi Bowers and ashes in the parking lot. I think it fell out of someones bag or car. Please flood your feeds and pray she finds her way back to her family.🙏🏻 It only takes seconds to share.“
However, things started looking shady when each post had a different location, and the comment sections were turned off.
Many pointed out that the posts about Zachary Levi Bowers’s ashes are potentially a scam!
After noticing such details on the Facebook posts, people began to look to see if there ever was a Zachary Levi Bowers who passed away on the date mentioned on the urn.
After some digging, information came forward that Bowers was a resident of Springfield who passed away at the age of 39 due to undisclosed reasons.
Likewise, his close friends and family completed his final rituals and entrusted the ultimate task of the funeral to Midwest Cremation and Funeral Services.
His family also arranged to plant trees in his memory, and his well-wishers can visit the Sympathy Store to participate in the initiative.
People speculated that the pages took pictures out of Bowers’s close family to earn more traction for their accounts with such false claims about finding the urn in the parking lot.
Things escalated as users on Facebook cursed Alex writing hateful comments on his timeline, as one of them read, “Alex Corey the junk scumbag posting fake stuff and should face the biggest prison sentence he is a piece of dirt deserve to rot.“
Amidst the chaos, other users tried to take control of the situation by providing ways to tackle such incidents on Facebook, which have been rampant recently.
In a similar incident, accounts that usually post about garage sales mentioned the missing Graci Mae Thompson, which sparked comparable criticism on the platform.
However, it is necessary to refrain from interacting with such misleading posts that could hamper the personal feelings of the affected friends and family members.
Additional Information
- The accounts about Zachary Levi Bowers have kept their posts private after mass reporting from Facebook users.
- If you ever come across such posts, report them as scams and fraud directly to Facebook and refrain from providing any personal information or sending money with the intention of helping.
