I was googling and found an artical on FB scams....I have no other accounts, please dont accept friendship from me if u are already my friend.....you all know me!! Generally the scam hits people who have loose privacy settings or are open to accepting loosely connected friends -- friends of friends; work associates; anyone that you dont know well. How it works is simple: You get a friend request from someone who you think is legitimate because they have mutual friends, work for your company, or, perhaps, are an alumnus of your school. And you decide to welcome them into your Facebook world. However, by adding them to your roster of friends, this new person gets access to your photographs, listing of your other friends and other personal information about you. They use that to copy your photos, status, personal information and create a new Facebook account where they pose as you. The impostor then starts friending your friends, who would have no reason to suspect that the friend request was coming from anyone but you. After accumulating enough of your unsuspecting friends to strike, the impostor will start doing one of three things: Ask for money -- OMG. Im overseas and was just robbed! I dont even have enough to get home! Or they might start promoting bogus business opportunities, such as work-at-home scams or some multi-level marketing opportunity. But the most pernicious crooks will start sending messages that link to sites that load malware onto your friends computers.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 23:55:13 +0000
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