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- Cybercriminals find ways to use YouTube and Tagged - People who consider their personal information and finances as valuable should always stay focused online because there are new ways to scam people everyday. Some of the most recently revealed ways of phishing online now include YouTube and Tagged. April 19, 2012
- Another Facebook scam: “OMG.. I Hate Rihanna” - There are 500 million active Facebook users – a fertile ground for cybercriminals to exploit their evil ways of earning money. This time in order to attack Facebook users, criminals utilize a name of a famous U.S. pop star - Rihanna. March 13, 2012
- Attention! Keylogger comes via rogue Facebook message - According to BarracudaLabs researchers, rogue Facebook messages is hitting users' emails and brings scam for those who fall for fake message. February 17, 2012
- Terrible news for Whitney Houston's fans but not for cybercriminals - As another talent taken too early, scammers already exposing Whithey Houston's death. The news about singers death spread fast on Internet. Countless tweets, Facebook post on walls were a trigger for scammers to use the World's news for earning money. February 13, 2012
- Newest Facebook scam - Russel Brand and Kate Perry leaked tape - Cyber criminals do not stop attacking Facebook users via various scams and it does not seem to stop any time soon. The latest of their scams is about Kate Perry and Russel Brand. Be careful! January 27, 2012
- Scammers utilize Facebook's Timeline to their benefit - Scammers have been long known as a creative gang being able to make use of every little bit of information or event that people may be interested in. Deaths of famous people, scandals, sport events, you name it. Do you remember a recent Facebook Holiday S January 11, 2012
- Damage after Halloween: new Facebook scam floats - It is not surprising that scammers exploit every bigger event of the world and Halloween wasn’t an exception as well. Facebook users are targeted again with a new scam. The fake message claims that a girl killed herself on Halloween after her father poste November 4, 2011
- Hurricane Irene hits Facebook - It’s not a big shock that scammers use Facebook as their most lovable way to spread scams. This time they are using hurricane Irene for their malicious intentions. August 30, 2011
- Rogue email targets Facebook users - Facebook users are victims of scammers once again. They are targets of fake emails that spreading very fast. Users are getting rogue emails that are supposedly coming from Facebook page. August 24, 2011
- Security Guide of Facebook is released - Recently Facebook presented a guide to Facebook Security. The guide of 14 pages in all includes few security tips on Facebook account. It advises how to avoid the scammers by giving examples of the most common Facebook scams. August 22, 2011
- Recent tragedies are still exploited by scammers via Facebook - Bombing and shootings in Norway and Amy‘s Winehouse death are the most exploitable news by scammers nowadays. With the big peoples‘ interest in these tragedies cybercriminals seem to be very excited and try to trick computer users to click on supposedly l July 26, 2011
- What to do if you clicked on Facebook fraud - Facebook got more than 750 million active users (as of July 2011); this makes it very attractive for scammers. Even if you are extra cautious, it’s easy to get into trap as Facebook is flooded with various frauds. While fake news stories like “OMG! I Can' July 14, 2011
- Facebook Profile Views Fraud Tricks People (Again) - Curiosity helps us learn things, but it can also get us into trouble. Would you like to know how many people look at your Facebook profile? And how would like spreading spam and participating in survey scam at the same time? A fraud is exactly what is hid April 18, 2011
- „Time on Tweeter“ scam - On Tuesday new scam was released and spread widely on Twitter site. This “Time on Tweeter” scam claims to people how they are wasting their precious time on this site. March 3, 2011
- Another profile statistics fraud on Facebook - The latest Facebook scam was spreading very fast according to the number of users that reported about this phishing attack. This affected many users. February 8, 2011
- Worm masquerades under the photo chat on Facebook - A new worm have been noticed which hides the photo chat messages on Facebook. This is bait for victims to download malicious files. The worm forces user to click on a “View Photo“ button. January 12, 2011
- New Facebook fraud uses iPhone and iPad for bait - It looks like a new scam circulating across the Facebook is not big news nowadays. Users are also saying that it happens all the time. It is because that Facebook is a notorious social network which has many users that contain personal data in it. It is a August 31, 2010
- ‘Dislike’ feature is another scam spreading on Facebook - Another Facebook scam is on the run. The latest scam is spreading through the network, that’s why users should be wary of this fraud. There are numbers of varieties of this scam, which sees users stubbornly update their Facebook status encouraging others August 17, 2010
- Scam on Facebook under the Name of Toy Story 3 - The latest hit on Facebook uses the name of recently released Toy Story 3 movie. As written in Graham’s Cluley blog the message have spread widely across Facebook. August 4, 2010
- Scammers running wild on Facebook - Facebook has millions users world wide and this makes the website attractive to scammers. Several “Monthly charge” frauds are circulating for a few months now pushing gullible users into panic. People are usually invited to join a group to express a prote January 12, 2010
