In the past, you may remember that I’ve written about many instances where Facebook users were falling for a trick where a link get’s posted on their wall asking them to click a fake link in order to gain access so some “cool” feature such as getting a free iPad, gaining access and see other […]
Category: Online Privacy
You remember about all those scams I was posting about? (Then stopped posting about since I got lazy). Now there’s a new discovery: A Russian hacker who says he’s in New Zealand is selling the username & passwords of Facebook accounts ranging from $35 to $65, depending on how many friends each account has. He […]
Well you know about the previous Dell Facebook scam? (http://darwin-mach.net/blog/2009/12/10/dell-promotion-facebook-scam/) This one’s worse, but uses the exact same code, which does the exact same thing. The theme now is that it claims to install “Profile Spy”, to help you see who’s looking at your profile, etc, but THERE IS NO SUCH THING. There’s only a […]
Hi all, I just wanted to alert you on a new scam that is going around on Facebook. It comes in the form of an invite to a group called “Dell Laptop Giveaway (1 in 2 people win one Laptop)” at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=355563360211 BEWARE! The instructions stated actually collects your entire friends list and spams them […]