Post by kas on Jul 11, 2012 18:36:02 GMT -5
Facebook
Someone tagged you in a photo on Facebook? Beware of this being a real claim or a fake one leading to getting your login information.
How? Well let me first say that not all claims are fake and it should bring you right to the picture. If it asks you to log in again then it is a scam. It should go right to your picture. If you got that notification in Facebook then you are already logged in right?
Read below:
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Beware the facebook picture and hacking scam.
Someone tagged you in a photo on Facebook? Beware of this being a real claim or a fake one leading to getting your login information.
How? Well let me first say that not all claims are fake and it should bring you right to the picture. If it asks you to log in again then it is a scam. It should go right to your picture. If you got that notification in Facebook then you are already logged in right?
Read below:
wrenfrost56.hubpages.com/hub/Facebook-Hacking-and-The-Photograph-Scam
Facebook Hacking and The Photograph Scam
Phishing.
I used to be one of those people who thought that I was far too technologically savvy to fall for an Internet scam. Hackers won't get hold of my details, I would think to myself. I read all about the phishing scams, the not to be trusted emails, the websites to be weary of and the get rich quick schemes that would only serve to fill the pockets of the organizers.
Yep I though I had seen, read and heard them all. I was educated on all the relative statistics and had gathered enough information to fill a small library about, malware and spyware. Along with a consciousness of the sophisticated hacking techniques that were being used, I was aware and prepared and no cybercriminal was ever going to get the better of me. Or so I had misguidedly and rather ignorantly believed, at the time.
The bait.
One day as I was checking into on my facebook account I received a message, it said that a friend of mine had tagged me in a photograph, I clicked on the link filled partly with curiosity and partly with dread. If it was a flattering photograph of me from a good angle and looking relatively photogenic, then I would be pleased to see my face on the screen. However it could just as likely be one that made me look like a bag of crap, either way I wanted to peer at the offending picture of myself.
But unlike other times that I have gone to view an image, I have normally gotten straight through, however this time was different as it said that to access and view this picture I had to enter my facebook log in details. I was a little suspicious of this as I had never had to do it before to view pictures of myself, or any other images for that matter. (This was warning sign number one). Then I also noticed that the log in page, although strikingly like the usual, genuine facebook log in page, to me on this particular occasion, didn't look quite right. (Warning sign number two). Even my instincts were telling me not to input my user name and password. (Warning sign number three, and alarm bells were ringing). But for some inexplicable reason, I thought better of it, shrugged off my doubts and like a complete and utter wally, did it anyway.
Looking back, if I had been watching myself in that moment I would have been screaming at myself not to do it, but that is the bitter reality of high insight.
The consequences.
Low and behold, later that evening a diet pill company, were pasting links to there products via my facebook status feed and on my wall. The worse thing of all was that I could not do a damn thing about it. All I could do was watch in helpless despair as they kept peddling their goods on my page, under my name and making out that I was endorsing there product. My friends and family also believing that I was behind the promoting. I just hoped that no one clicked on any of the links and that it didn't lead to some other greater scam later on, where people might actually end up losing money.
Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse, they did. The next morning I couldn't even access my own account! Numerous times I put my details in and each time I was denied access. I got very frustrated and angry, but in reality the only person I had to blame for this whole mess was myself.
Luckily the wonderful people from the social networking site had cottoned on to what had happened, and was sorting out the security breach. They had experienced this unscrupulous companies behavior at an epidemic level, and were working hard to fix the problem. Thankfully it all got sorted out and it has never happened again since.
I learned a hard but valuable lesson from that experience and I would never want anyone else to have to go through that. If something doesn't look or feel right, or your questioning it, then there is probably something wrong. Please don't make the same mistake as I did and compromise your account or details, by falling victim to phishing.
Phishing.
I used to be one of those people who thought that I was far too technologically savvy to fall for an Internet scam. Hackers won't get hold of my details, I would think to myself. I read all about the phishing scams, the not to be trusted emails, the websites to be weary of and the get rich quick schemes that would only serve to fill the pockets of the organizers.
Yep I though I had seen, read and heard them all. I was educated on all the relative statistics and had gathered enough information to fill a small library about, malware and spyware. Along with a consciousness of the sophisticated hacking techniques that were being used, I was aware and prepared and no cybercriminal was ever going to get the better of me. Or so I had misguidedly and rather ignorantly believed, at the time.
The bait.
One day as I was checking into on my facebook account I received a message, it said that a friend of mine had tagged me in a photograph, I clicked on the link filled partly with curiosity and partly with dread. If it was a flattering photograph of me from a good angle and looking relatively photogenic, then I would be pleased to see my face on the screen. However it could just as likely be one that made me look like a bag of crap, either way I wanted to peer at the offending picture of myself.
But unlike other times that I have gone to view an image, I have normally gotten straight through, however this time was different as it said that to access and view this picture I had to enter my facebook log in details. I was a little suspicious of this as I had never had to do it before to view pictures of myself, or any other images for that matter. (This was warning sign number one). Then I also noticed that the log in page, although strikingly like the usual, genuine facebook log in page, to me on this particular occasion, didn't look quite right. (Warning sign number two). Even my instincts were telling me not to input my user name and password. (Warning sign number three, and alarm bells were ringing). But for some inexplicable reason, I thought better of it, shrugged off my doubts and like a complete and utter wally, did it anyway.
Looking back, if I had been watching myself in that moment I would have been screaming at myself not to do it, but that is the bitter reality of high insight.
The consequences.
Low and behold, later that evening a diet pill company, were pasting links to there products via my facebook status feed and on my wall. The worse thing of all was that I could not do a damn thing about it. All I could do was watch in helpless despair as they kept peddling their goods on my page, under my name and making out that I was endorsing there product. My friends and family also believing that I was behind the promoting. I just hoped that no one clicked on any of the links and that it didn't lead to some other greater scam later on, where people might actually end up losing money.
Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse, they did. The next morning I couldn't even access my own account! Numerous times I put my details in and each time I was denied access. I got very frustrated and angry, but in reality the only person I had to blame for this whole mess was myself.
Luckily the wonderful people from the social networking site had cottoned on to what had happened, and was sorting out the security breach. They had experienced this unscrupulous companies behavior at an epidemic level, and were working hard to fix the problem. Thankfully it all got sorted out and it has never happened again since.
I learned a hard but valuable lesson from that experience and I would never want anyone else to have to go through that. If something doesn't look or feel right, or your questioning it, then there is probably something wrong. Please don't make the same mistake as I did and compromise your account or details, by falling victim to phishing.
expertscolumn.com/content/beware-facebook-picture-and-hacking-scam
Beware the facebook picture and hacking scam.
Published by wrenfrost56 | July 5, 2012 - 6 days 2 hours ago
Phishing is a very real, detrimental Internet phenomenon and people fall victim to it every day. Statistics show that in the UK alone someone is affected by a scam circulating the web once every 20 minutes. I too recently became just another statistic and had my facebook account hacked. I am going to share my experience with you now, so that you can avoid making the same mistakes as I did.
I am a user of facebook, most people are. It allows me to easily keep in touch with my friends and family. I can find out whats going on in the lives of the people I care about, I can find out what they are doing and were they are. And I can share my own thoughts, work and experiences with them if I so chose to. I can share my appreciation of products and services by liking them, and follow bands or authors that are of interest to me. I like reading quotes and seeing funny images and for the most part social networking is a beneficial addition to my life.
However not too long ago I found myself in a bit of bother, regarding my facebook account and it appears I was not the only one.
This one particular day as I was doing my usual troweling through peoples status updates, a message came up informing me that one of my friends had tagged me in a picture. This in itself is not unusual, I often get informed that someone has caught me on film and has decided to share it with the world and their wives. This no longer phases me and all I can do is prey that they have at least caught me in a good light.
Sparked by my inquisitive nature I clicked on to the link that was offering to show me this mysterious image. Usually when I want to see a picture it is instantly there before my vary eyes, staring back at me from the screen and I am either pleased because I look alright, or a bit embarrassed because I look a bit stupid, or disappointed because I don't look very attractive. I know, I know it's all terribly superficial and a rather vain attitude to take but, hey I'm only human.
Anyway I digress, the upshot was that instead of getting a picture come up like I was expecting, I instead had a page come up saying that I needed to input my user name and password to view it. Now straight away this was a bit odd, as I had never had to do that to access a picture before, especially as it was probably a photograph with me in it.
Secondly, although they had obviously done their research and it was almost identical to the real facebook log in point, it still didn't look exactly like it should. I couldn't put my finger on just what it was that made it not quite look like the genuine article, it just didn't quite seem like it was.
Thirdly there was something in the depths of my gut that made me feel a bit uneasy about the whole thing, but I wasn't sure why? And yet, in spite all my reservations and the niggling doubt that had set in, you know what I did? I entered my details anyway! I'm not kidding, even after everything I have ever heard or read about phishing on the Internet, this is exactly what I still did. Cue the Homer Simpson moment 'Doh!'.
Well suffice to say the image that did appear was not one of me at all, but a group of a couple of hundred people, at some kind of religious event or celebration. They were all wearing pretty much identical clothes and the picture was taken at such a distance that trying to make out facial features was near on impossible. I know that this was not an occasion I was at, even as a child, but if you were not sure and you had a good look for yourself, just in case, you would not be able to identify yourself anyhow.
So I had clearly been well and truly had by the cybercriminals and one of their sophisticated hacking techniques that I had read so much about before. I felt like a complete idiot and was now worried about what they were going to do with my information now that they had it. It didn't take long to discover what they wanted control of my account for, as later that evening links and promotions to a site that sold diet pills began cropping up on my wall and status updates. As they appeared, I did deleted them but as fast as I was wiping them off, they were popping up again, I was fighting a losing battle.
This wasn't even the worst of it, the next day I couldn't even get into my account! I was angry and upset but I could only blame myself. I tried and tried, but every time it just kept telling me that access was denied. I was denied access to my own facebook account and boy did I feel even more foolish now. Luckily the good people at the social networking site were right on to their devious plan and sorted my account out for me, and everything went back to normal.
That is a lesson I won't be forgetting in a hurry, and if anyone asks for your password and user name to view a picture on facebook, take my advice and avoid it like the plague.
Phishing is a very real, detrimental Internet phenomenon and people fall victim to it every day. Statistics show that in the UK alone someone is affected by a scam circulating the web once every 20 minutes. I too recently became just another statistic and had my facebook account hacked. I am going to share my experience with you now, so that you can avoid making the same mistakes as I did.
I am a user of facebook, most people are. It allows me to easily keep in touch with my friends and family. I can find out whats going on in the lives of the people I care about, I can find out what they are doing and were they are. And I can share my own thoughts, work and experiences with them if I so chose to. I can share my appreciation of products and services by liking them, and follow bands or authors that are of interest to me. I like reading quotes and seeing funny images and for the most part social networking is a beneficial addition to my life.
However not too long ago I found myself in a bit of bother, regarding my facebook account and it appears I was not the only one.
This one particular day as I was doing my usual troweling through peoples status updates, a message came up informing me that one of my friends had tagged me in a picture. This in itself is not unusual, I often get informed that someone has caught me on film and has decided to share it with the world and their wives. This no longer phases me and all I can do is prey that they have at least caught me in a good light.
Sparked by my inquisitive nature I clicked on to the link that was offering to show me this mysterious image. Usually when I want to see a picture it is instantly there before my vary eyes, staring back at me from the screen and I am either pleased because I look alright, or a bit embarrassed because I look a bit stupid, or disappointed because I don't look very attractive. I know, I know it's all terribly superficial and a rather vain attitude to take but, hey I'm only human.
Anyway I digress, the upshot was that instead of getting a picture come up like I was expecting, I instead had a page come up saying that I needed to input my user name and password to view it. Now straight away this was a bit odd, as I had never had to do that to access a picture before, especially as it was probably a photograph with me in it.
Secondly, although they had obviously done their research and it was almost identical to the real facebook log in point, it still didn't look exactly like it should. I couldn't put my finger on just what it was that made it not quite look like the genuine article, it just didn't quite seem like it was.
Thirdly there was something in the depths of my gut that made me feel a bit uneasy about the whole thing, but I wasn't sure why? And yet, in spite all my reservations and the niggling doubt that had set in, you know what I did? I entered my details anyway! I'm not kidding, even after everything I have ever heard or read about phishing on the Internet, this is exactly what I still did. Cue the Homer Simpson moment 'Doh!'.
Well suffice to say the image that did appear was not one of me at all, but a group of a couple of hundred people, at some kind of religious event or celebration. They were all wearing pretty much identical clothes and the picture was taken at such a distance that trying to make out facial features was near on impossible. I know that this was not an occasion I was at, even as a child, but if you were not sure and you had a good look for yourself, just in case, you would not be able to identify yourself anyhow.
So I had clearly been well and truly had by the cybercriminals and one of their sophisticated hacking techniques that I had read so much about before. I felt like a complete idiot and was now worried about what they were going to do with my information now that they had it. It didn't take long to discover what they wanted control of my account for, as later that evening links and promotions to a site that sold diet pills began cropping up on my wall and status updates. As they appeared, I did deleted them but as fast as I was wiping them off, they were popping up again, I was fighting a losing battle.
This wasn't even the worst of it, the next day I couldn't even get into my account! I was angry and upset but I could only blame myself. I tried and tried, but every time it just kept telling me that access was denied. I was denied access to my own facebook account and boy did I feel even more foolish now. Luckily the good people at the social networking site were right on to their devious plan and sorted my account out for me, and everything went back to normal.
That is a lesson I won't be forgetting in a hurry, and if anyone asks for your password and user name to view a picture on facebook, take my advice and avoid it like the plague.