Showing posts with label Facebook Scams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook Scams. Show all posts

Saturday, October 22, 2011

New Facebook Scam: Woman Kills Pregnant Woman & Cuts the Baby from Her Dead Body


The link that entitled "Woman Kills Pregnant Woman & Cuts the Baby from Her Dead Body" is another scam that is spreading in Facebook. This site promises to click on the "I Agree" button and unlock to watch a video of a woman kiling a pregnant women.


But the truth is, there is no video at all. By the time you clicked on the "I Agree" button, it secretly shares the link to your Facebook wall so that your friends can also see the "scam message" and it will just link you to another fake website which ask you to complete a set of surveys. This clearly implies that the scammer's intention is to spread and spam the link to the social network.


The hacker's goal here is to virally spread it to Facebook so that they can generate traffics to their websites and earn money from the surveys that you have completed. If you have clicked that message, be sure to remove it in your Facebook wall and please do not share it or if you are concerened, please report it to Facebook Security. This will help others to be protected against these scams.

Please do not click suspicious link and please don't click on a link that lets you watch or unlock something in exchange of a completion of a survey. Please be aware that these websites you are visiting secretly downloads malwares that gathers useful information and send it back to the hackers for hacking.


Sunday, October 9, 2011

Steve Jobs Death leads to New Facebook Scams


The scam site displays the following:


Cyber criminals take advantage of Steve Job's death by making a web page that offers Free 1000 limited edition iPads. This site asks user to input "Thank You Steve From (City)" and then share it to Facebook. When the user follows the said instructions, he then will be directed to an Advertisement Site which allows the Ad site to garner many views and in exchange of the views, the scammers will be paid for the views of the Ad.

This will be posted to your wall at the time you clicked the share button:


NO REAL iPad GIVEAWAY!
(be careful because some Ad Sites contains virus)
*and please share this to your friends*


 
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