Scams - AllFacebook http://allfacebook.com The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News, Facebook Marketing, Facebook Business, and More! Copyright 2013 Fri, 17 May 2013 23:00:31 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Facebook Has A Nigerian Problem With Targeting No, I didn’t receive an email from Princess Zuckerberg asking me to save her family fortune from the hands of the rebel forces. This is not the typical Nigerian 419 scam. In this version, Facebook is unknowingly misleading its advertisers about its vaunted targeting abilities. If you buy ads targeting the U.S., it is now very likely that you are getting traffic from Nigeria and other parts of Africa, as well.

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]]> Guest Writer http://allfacebook.com/nigerian-targeting-harlan-kilstein_b114971#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/nigerian-targeting-harlan-kilstein_b114971 http://allfacebook.com/?p=114971 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:33:36 +0000 10 Reasons Why Parents Of Preteens Should Deny Them Facebook Accounts You must be at least 13 years old to join Facebook, but many kids bypass that rule, often with help from their parents. That may not be the best idea, according to blog Babysitting Jobs, which offered 10 reasons why parents should not let their preteen offspring have accounts on the social network.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/10-reasons-why-parents-of-preteens-should-deny-them-facebook-accounts_b113598#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/10-reasons-why-parents-of-preteens-should-deny-them-facebook-accounts_b113598 http://allfacebook.com/?p=113598 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:46:21 +0000 HOAXES: Liking Facebook Pages Will Not Yield Ipad Minis, Beats Electronics Headphones, GHD Hair Straighteners OK, folks, let’s try this again: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Now, keeping that in mind, will liking a Facebook page result in a free iPad Mini, a free pair of high-end headphones from Beats Electronics, or a free hair straightener from GHD?

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/hoaxes-ipad-minis-beats-electronics-ghd_b112590#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/hoaxes-ipad-minis-beats-electronics-ghd_b112590 http://allfacebook.com/?p=112590 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:31:03 +0000 This Week’s Facebook Hoaxes: Free Samsung Galaxy S IV Smartphones, Justin Bieber Dead The latest round of Facebook hoaxes involve promises of free Samsung Mobile USA Galaxy S IV smartphones and news of the death of Justin Bieber in a car crash.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/free-samsung-galaxy-s-iv-justin-bieber-dead-hoaxes_b111978#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/free-samsung-galaxy-s-iv-justin-bieber-dead-hoaxes_b111978 http://allfacebook.com/?p=111978 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:37:38 +0000 Rihanna Featured In Latest Facebook Sex-Tape Hoax The latest sex-tape hoax to flood Facebook uses Rihanna as bait, but the Facebook Security team is already on the job, blocking the links contained in the hoax messages, which were reported as malicious.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/rihanna-sex-tape-hoax_b111789#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/rihanna-sex-tape-hoax_b111789 http://allfacebook.com/?p=111789 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:19:17 +0000 4 Mistakes That Will Get Your Facebook Contest Shut Down Last week, sister site Inside Facebook posted an article about the number of businesses that are still running illegal contests on Facebook. The writer pointed out that a shocking number of page owners don’t know the most basic rule: You can’t post a message on your wall and call it a contest.  Nor can you make liking your page an automatic entry to a contest. You can, however, require that people who want to enter your contest like your page or check in at your business in order to gain access to your contest application.

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]]> Guest Writer http://allfacebook.com/4-mistakes-that-will-get-your-facebook-contest-shut-down_b111212#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/4-mistakes-that-will-get-your-facebook-contest-shut-down_b111212 http://allfacebook.com/?p=111212 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:50:50 +0000 WARNING: Check URLs Before Entering Login Information; Facebook Is Not Faceboourk As scams, malware, phishing, and other security dangers continue to thrive on Facebook, one way for users to protect themselves is actually quite simple: Examine the URLs of the pages you are taken to. After all, the name of the social network is “Facebook,” not “Faceboourk.”

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/faceboourk_b108129#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/faceboourk_b108129 http://allfacebook.com/?p=108129 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:41:14 +0000 WARNING: Page Administrators Targeted With Scam Messages From ‘Facebook Security Team’ Facebook page administrators are the target of a scam that uses the Facebook Security Team logo to lure them into providing their login information to a third-party application.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/facebook-security-team-scam_b107996#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-security-team-scam_b107996 http://allfacebook.com/?p=107996 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:51:14 +0000 ALERT: Free $10 Coupon Offer From Discounts Facebook Page Is A Scam Believing a gift card Facebook offer for Starbucks that seems too good to be true could land users in hot water. Dennis Yu, founder of BlitzLocal, tipped us off to this latest scam making the rounds on Facebook: offers from a shady page called Discounts (which appears to have been taken down already). Users who clicked on the offer for coupons from Starbucks and McDonald’s, among other brands, entered their email addresses, supposedly to receive loads of free goodies, but instead got hacked.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/discounts-page-scam_b105319#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/discounts-page-scam_b105319 http://allfacebook.com/?p=105319 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:17:57 +0000 WARNING: Users Cannot Change The Colors Of Their Facebook Profiles No matter how bored you may have become with Facebook’s blue color scheme, do not fall for messages and images that promise to turn your Facebook profile black, or other colors: A blue Facebook is still better than falling victim to a hijacked account or a survey scam.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/change-your-facebook-color-facebook-black_b104566#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/change-your-facebook-color-facebook-black_b104566 http://allfacebook.com/?p=104566 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:31:47 +0000 Two Firms Fined $721K For Facebook Scam Involving U.K. Grocery Chains Tesco, Asda Facebook crime does not pay, as a 2011 scam that promised users of the social network free vouchers and gift cards for U.K. grocery chains Tesco and Asda wound up costing mBill of Australia and Amazecell of Israel a total of £450,000 ($721,000).

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/tesco-asda-scam_b102018#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/tesco-asda-scam_b102018 http://allfacebook.com/?p=102018 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:28:09 +0000 Facebook’s Newest Feature Could Be Banking It’s no secret that Facebook is trying to become a destination site, where you do pretty much everything possible online through the social network. According to CNN/Fortune, you might soon be able to do your banking on Facebook, too.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/facebooks-newest-feature-could-be-banking_b94158#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebooks-newest-feature-could-be-banking_b94158 http://allfacebook.com/?p=94158 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:31:04 +0000 SCAM ALERT: Get Paid To Comment On Facebook Not long after the ink dried on our post about buying and selling likes on Facebook, we received a rather entertaining pitch that raises even more red flags: Get paid to post comments. continued…

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]]> Jackie Cohen http://allfacebook.com/facebook-scam-comment_b84871#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-scam-comment_b84871 http://www.allfacebook.com/?p=84871 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:04:54 +0000 ALERT: Facebook Urged To Police Sick Baby Scams A second open letter to Facebook urged the social network to take action on a scam using photos of sick babies to collect money for nonexistent charities.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/facebook-sick-child-scam_b81841#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-sick-child-scam_b81841 http://www.allfacebook.com/?p=81841 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:08:09 +0000 13 Ways To Avoid Hustles And Scams On Facebook Despite continuing improvements to Facebook’s immune system, scammers, clickjackers and other digital villains continue to concoct new schemes.

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]]> Guest Blogger http://allfacebook.com/facebook-security-3_b78958#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-security-3_b78958 http://www.allfacebook.com/?p=78958 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:41:27 +0000