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http://heraldnet.com/article/20110101/BIZ/701019903/0/COMM0604
ORLANDO, Fla. — Facebook is the latest hot spot for swindlers in search of new victims.
And the world’s most popular social-networking website can be a gold mine for such crooks, experts say.
Scams on social-media sites are much the same as the ones you may have received as e-mail, said Kevin Johnson, a consultant for Secure Ideas, which does security research.
“The big difference in the (social-networking) scams is the level of trust that the users have,” he said. “People trust them more than they trust e-mail.”
Over time, we’ve become leery of unusual e-mails with strange links, but many people’s ingrained suspicions of e-mail scams have not carried over to Facebook. The social network tries to keep track but isn’t responsible for everything on its site.
Cybercriminals on Facebook today come cloaked as real friends sending messages asking you to wire them money in a foreign country or posting a note on your wall with a funny video that’s really a dangerous link.
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