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Scam Alert!!
This scam has just come to our attention in Stokes County NC. A Facebook user had their profile hacked and their friends list. The hacker reviewed the Facebook users account to obtain some personal information to use in the scam. The hacker then sent out a new friend request to the friends listed posing as the Facebook user and by using the personal information obtained from the Facebook user’s account. When friends excepted the new fake friends account the fake user would message the friends and again by using information from the original Facebook users account would appear to be the original user and told the friends they had won money from a Lottery and that their name was on the winner’s list and asked if they have gotten their money and then proceed to tell the friend to contact a person to set up their delivery of the monies to be shipped and that the friends would now need to obtain a gift card to cover expense and they would need to provide them with the gift card information. The scammer then could use the card information to obtain the money from the gift card.
Here are some other scams you might want to watch for on Facebook:
Facebook Scams 2017
Money Scam
You could get a request on your Facebook from unknown person saying he or she has been lost in an island or is bankrupt. The person request to transfer an amount to his account for him to return back to his place and commits to return back once he is safe. Facebook has informed such scams are fake and there are no such accounts available. Facebook advises to block such messages if received to anyone.
Phishing
Phishing is the most common type of scams seen. You could get links from people informing to click to get prizes or cash. These are received either by chat or posting on your Facebook page. This needs to be reported once these types of messages are received.
Messages Containing Phishing Links
This is one of the most popular facebook scams 2017. Sometimes while you are chatting with someone, you could get a link which looks strange. On clicking you could get some gold, cash or gifts. Report these accounts from where such messages are received. Facebook team will review on these links and necessary action will be taken.
Malicious Script
You could come across some Facebook application informing to copy a script given and paste to your browser. By doing so, the application will give a list of profiles when it is pasted. Not only this, the application will hack into your account and send various events and messages from your account.
Unusual Emails
You could get mails informing to reset your password from Facebook. The content looks so genuine that you could be misled to be from Facebook itself. It should be noted that Facebook has mentioned in his policy that it never ask any user his or her password for any purpose.
There are chances that you could click on any of the phishing link. In that case, you need to go immediately to your account and change the password. You need to make sure that the new password is unique and difficult for anyone to break and get into your account.
There is an increase of cyber criminals in the world. Various new and unique methods are tested on users and information is gained from them. Even Facebook of government agencies is hacked to get details of confidential information is done by other countries. Precautions are to be taken and concerned authorities and steps are to be taken in safeguarding the Facebook account from facebook scams. You never know you could be the victim of these cyber criminals as they are at loose and not easy to be caught by the authorities.