Posts Tagged ‘Scam’

A Facebook status update claiming that Zynga is giving away farm cash worth $50 for free is simply not true.

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This morning, a scam is promising 150 free Facebook Credits, and it turns out to be yet another attempt to score affiliate commissions by getting people to complete surveys.

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In the latest installment of “Watch your most beloved/hated pop star do nasty things by clicking on this Facebook link!”, an alleged Miley Cyrus sex tape is circulating on Facebook, but the whole thing is (surprise!) a scam.

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Users playing “Call of Duty: Black Ops” on Facebook have been reportedly getting spam messages of a nonexistent video of a guy killing his roommate.

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Over the past few hours a massive like-jacking worm has been spreading on Facebook. Similar to previous attacks, this attack is using numerous applications on the Facebook Platform with different names in order to spread quickly while existing under the radar.

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A group of developers have found a loophole in Facebook’s application Platform which enables them to automatically post messages to a user’s wall. This loophole doesn’t require any action by the user, it simply posts to the user’s wall the moment they load the application. Right now the messages being spread state “I thought this survey stuff was GARBAGE but i just went on a shopping spree at walmart thanks to FB”. This is a scam, do not click on any of the applications!
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Businesses might still be warming up to the idea of social media marketing to sell goods and services, but hackers seem to understand the potential, going to the extent of propagating a current Facebook-based scam, purportedly for Whole Foods, to gain personal information and install viruses. The scam is in various forms — and even uses Whole Foods Market’ logo — suggesting that you can a $500 gift card.
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Facebook is no stranger to phishing scams and today another one is making its way around Facebook. The scam gets users to fill in their email address and password and then posts 25 wall messages on the walls of the user’s friends. What makes this version of the scam unique is that if the user deletes the wall posts, this system is apparently smart enough to post additional wall posts.
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Scammers leveraging Facebook users’ accounts and their social graphs had started off the new year with a bang, when they began hacking into accounts and using Facebook chat to solicit friends for money. These scammers are getting more aggressive in the past few days, taking to status updates feigning distress (typically in London) in order to reach out to multiple friends at once and using private messages and chat to follow up with those friends that fall for the ploy.
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Just as we suspected, more scams have begun to arrive on Facebook. The latest have appeared via chat, where the scammer hacks into a friend’s account and initiates a chat conversation begging for money. The situation is always similar enough–they’re stranded in some foreign land and need money wired into their account so that they can get a return flight home.

While the channel for the scam is on the newer side, a little bit unsettling given its occurrence on Facebook, the scam’s motif is nothing new at all. And it’s Facebook’s response time that has many worried about the social network’s ability to readily handle the situation.
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