Every day the team at Naked Security is deluged with emails from Facebook users reporting the latest scams that they have seen spreading via the social network.
Although we write about some of these, we simply don’t have enough hours in the day to document all of them – so we try to stick to the ones that are particularly widespread or worthy of interest.
This morning I came across a Facebook scam which used a slightly different piece of social engineering to trick you into participating in its revenue-generating online survey.
As you’ll have noted if you have been reading our recent articles, we’ve noticed a rise in the number of Facebook users whose accounts are spreading messages regarding a supposed webcam video of a girl committing suicide.
Here’s an example of just such a scam that we saw this morning…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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