Shaw Capital Scam Prevention : Breaking news is now a raging scam on
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Priyanka Joshi / Mumbai July 27, 2011, 0:15 IST
In the online world, one person s...
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Shaw Capital Scam Prevention : Breaking news is now a raging scam on
Facebook
http://www.
business-standard.
com/india/news/breaking-news-is-nowragingscamfacebook/443984/
Priyanka Joshi / Mumbai July 27, 2011, 0:15 IST
In the online world, one person s loss may well be another s gain.
Scams on social networking
sites like Facebook buttress this view.
News of the tragic Norway events last week, and the
untimely death of five-time Grammy award winner Amy Winehouse, who was found dead in
London on July 23, are cases in point.
Scams taking advantage of the tragic Norway attacks surfaced within days of the attack.
However, Facebook has cleaned out these instances, notes Websense Security Labs.
A new social
media fraud—‘look at footage of Amy Winehouse just moments after her death’—is going strong
on Facebook.
“This type of a scam is a survey scam, through which users are lured to complete a survey, in
return for which they are promised an exclusive video or footage.
Completion of t
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