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Saturday, January 8, 2011

New Facebook Scams (Updated)

New Facebook Scams

Facebook users should be careful about survey scams that are quickly spreading across the social network. Many Facebook users are struggling to clean up their accounts once they’ve been tricked into allowing a third party application to post messages from their profile.

Typical scams include messages that read:

“OMG this girl KILLED herself after her dad posted on her wall: LINK”

“Amazing how such a harmless prank could cause something so bad!: LINK”

“OMG OMG OMG…I cant believe this actually works! Now you really can see who viewed your profile! LINK”





However, by clicking on the link and giving a third-party Facebook application access to their profile, users are helping the scammers to spread the application across their network of friends.

As Per the innocent peoples are using internet, hackers are always interested to do the social engineering on them. Be careful with the email shown below listed come to your Email ID.

Whenever You See All Below Shown Title In Your Email Id Delete Mail Immediately.

12 Most Dangerous All Time Online Scams :-

1. “Help! I’ve been robbed” scam :-
2. Holiday job offers
3. Smishing
4. Hotel and Airport Wi-Fi
5. Suspicious holiday rentals
6. Low price traps
7. Charity scams
8. Grinch-like greetings
9. iPad offer scams
10. Recession scams continue
11. Dangerous holiday downloads


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