Facebook Scam , An example of Identity Fraud
How, when social networking site is not social to you ? Scammers always open their eagle eyes and sniffing to every social networking place connecting people world wide . World’s largest social networking site face book is under grip of internet fraudsters.
The new type of attack introduced by scammers is now posing as to be identity theft, directly steals personal information known as ” viral wall post “.
Here the hackers role comes in picture where this hackers post or sponsors a message with a link to another site.
These link are full of malware parasite and when clicked on this link ,personal information or social security is gifted to hackers i.e hackers are now eligible to access and gain all our personal information, thus a good example of identity fraud.
Security experts people about any posting that links to an outside site. In the same they should be careful about this in case of strangers or untrusted sources.
Source : ktnv.com
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