Posts Tagged ‘chain letters’

Bill Gates offers $5000 for Facebook sharing? It’s just not that funny

Apr

2013

Bill Gates may be a billionaire, but if he’s going to splash his cash around he’s got better things to do with it than give it to people who simply share a photo of him on Facebook.That hasn’t, however, stopped almost 400,000 people on Facebook from sharing an image of the Microsoft founder, holding an […]

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Baby cancer and heart transplant hoaxes on Facebook

Jan

2012

Facebook is a fertile breeding ground for hoaxes, spam and chain letters. Users of the social network have to wade through a seemingly constant tide of messages shared by their well-meaning friends, making it hard to sort the wheat from the chaff. Here’s an example that is spreading across Facebook right now, claiming that Facebook […]

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Don’t fall for the Recovering American Soldier hoax

Nov

2011

I’ve seen a post flying around Facebook (and so have others, thanks to those Naked Security readers who send us tips!) that for all intents and purposes, has its heart in the right place: When filling out your Christmas cards this year, take ONE CARD and SEND it to this address: A Recovering American Soldier, […]

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