13th
Social Scammers Have Arrived
Something weird happened today. I was checking out Facebook and a friend of mine contacted me on chat. He said he flew to London to meet a client but got robbed and didn’t have the money to buy the flight back to the States. I was quite worried for him and all ready to help.
I started realizing it was a scam when he asked me to wire money through Western Union.
Facebook became a de facto third party authentication authority, and I didn’t doubt the real identity of my friend for a good 15 minutes. To double check his identity I sent him a text message and found out the sad reality: his Facebook account was hacked (how scary is that!) and he was fine and warm in California.
Until today I thought it was safe to have my information and pictures on my profile, because I trusted the fact that only my friends could see it. Now beware, social scammers have arrived.
