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Facebook killer video scam spreads between social networkers

31
Jul
2011

A new scam has spread quickly across Facebook this weekend, pretending to be a link to a TV news report about an alleged Facebook killer. Here’s a typical message that has been seen spreading between social networking users: (BREAKING NEWS) Facebook-Killer [LINK] 07-29-2011 – News ?epo?ts of a ma? they are calling the ‘Facebook Killer’ […]

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Fake-Alert Scams Growing Again

13
May
2011

Fake-alert Trojans, also known as scareware, fool consumers by claiming imaginary threats, and insisting its victims purchase a product to repair the “infected” systems. They exist in Windows and Macintosh environments. In my recent report explaining this threat, I included a table showing the approximate number of scareware products with their known release dates: After […]

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