facebook: Top 10 Scams to Avoid

The largest social network in the world is also a real nest scammers. A cyber security firm has just made official the report of a study on these scams rampant on Facebook. Well known, yet they continue to thrive.

Spend time on Facebook without getting caught once by a seductive publicity or a link that encourages the click looks like an obstacle course. The famous security company Bitdefender has compiled a Top 10 of the most common scams on the social network. This is required, you must be over already fallen. Perhaps without you have. But on your news feed, impossible not to see passing an advert seductive, promising you know who visits your profile or who deleted you. Better still, there are those "amazing" videos you need "must see" because they are often "hilarious" or "surprising".

Facebook, the network of all scams

All these fuse on Facebook scams, phishing or spam, to the theft of your data. Users find themselves unwittingly to spread scams because these fake applications or these fake videos take power and publish on their behalf. For many years it lasts. Bitdefender were released in 2011 for example the Safego application, to combat scams on the social network (see video above). But still, the technique continues to operate, and every year there are millions of users who get trapped. For each click, it's a malware that spreads and becomes very difficult to combat. A concrete example: A friend seems to have enjoyed a video. You click the link to see the video. The video (that you usually never see), hides a button "Like" hidden. It's done, you share a video unwittingly and participate in the dissemination of the scam in question.

Rihanna on the podium scams

Bitdefender discusses the techniques used by scammers. Rihanna is for example the most common star to scam users (4.76%). But the two most common scams are also the most simple "Who visited my profile?" (30.20%) and "Change the color of your Facebook" (7.8%). Scams related to the use of social network and which directly concerns the user. "Why do users always want to know who threw a look at their profile, despite all the security warnings about it? They certainly think it is real applications ... This is called social engineering, and then reached its highest level - a psychological game between cybercriminals and the victim says Catalin Cosoi, Head of Bitdefender Security Strategy in "The baits have changed over. time - stalkers, voyeurs, admirers, girlfriends and ex too attached that haunt you, but why these scams work is simple human nature. "

Top 10 scams

1- "Who visited my profile?" (30.20%)

2- "Change the color of your Facebook" (7.8%)

3- The sextape of Rihanna with "her" boyfriend (4.76%)

4- "Check my status to receive a free T-shirt Official Facebook" (4.21%)

5 "Say goodbye to the blue Facebook" (2.76%)

  6 - Free distribution of défilmés products (2.41%)

7 - Check if a friend has removed you from its list (2.27%)

  8 - Know the people who "harass you more" (1.74%)

  9 - "Discover how to see who visits your profile, you are not at the end of your surprises!" (1.55%)

10 - "I just change the theme of my Facebook It's amazing." (1.50%)

This study is based on the application of Safego BitDefender, which aims to alert users when malware or fraudulent links. A study that will grow to be ever more careful on social networks, avoiding to click on any links that seem suspicious or "too good".

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