New Facebook Fake Profile Fraud
By Bryan on October 2, 2009 | Computer Security, facebook fraud, facebook attack, facebook security, facebook security fraud, fake facebook profile
If you have been recently invited by Emily Bennet, Emily Wood or Katherine Griffin to become friends on Facebook, you should be careful as these girls mean big trouble. Especially if they look like the girl in the picture.
Antivirus provider AVG Technologies reported that the users of the LinkScanner service have detected numerous fake Facebook accounts all including the same picture and a link to the “members” home video which actually leads to a corrupt website. Once the website is visited it displays a warning about the computer being infected and imitates performing a security scan and finding various security threats. It then suggests purchasing and downloading a security application that would take care of the problem. Unfortunately, all this is a huge scam made to sabotage the world's largest online community. Lucky for us, Facebook are no amateurs in dealing with such problems. They have already started removing these accounts and solving the problems that might have caused this fraud.
However, you should still be aware and not share your contact details with suspicious Facebook users and not follow every link that you are given or find on some member's profile. And you should definitely avoid the girl in the picture – she may look cute, but she just might cause you some serious trouble.
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