Top Facebook Scams

bitdefender safego It's a bird! It's a plane. No, it's our Social Scam Infograph. Helps you understand the dynamics of online social interactions. Sheds light on the psychological factors exploited by social engineering techniques. Reveals the internal mechanisms of online social scams. The App Promise Land Some apps provide a way of interacting with your friends and visitors in ways that the platform you are using does not allow by default and which copy real-life gestures which border the illicit. We've got apps that promise to become your eyes and spy on people who drop by. math Other apps detective apps (promise to dig up who knows what secret) whizzes (they always populate the virtual world count as busy doers of things: something) artsy apps (ready to help you make your Facebook home more errand boy fortune tellers and apps (they'll take your gifts and best wishes to your friends) horoscope readers, etc. pleasant) Just as in the real world, we've got the good and the bad guys. How do you tell the difference? Tricky app baits 347% profile traffic insights ("see who viewed your profile/ who deleted you", "my profile stalker", etc.) 16.2% social game bonuses (FarmVille, CityVille, etc.) 14.1% shocking images ("this girl killed herself after...", "you will never text again after seeing this", etc.) inexistent Facebook features ("my first status", "how long have you been logged in to facebook", "who poked me the most", a dislike button, etc.) 125% 5,7% free gadgets ( iPhones, iPads, etc.) (84% versions of famous games (Super Mario, The Sims, World of Warcraft, etc.) 4.1% 4,3% malware Other types of less popular threats The Spam Word Cloud, The spam word cloud. This is definitely not cloud number 9, or, for that matter any other cloud you would want your social account to be in or on. We've put together a list of words that are most likely to be appear in scam messages that flood social networks. This is a true Profile dictionary of human curiosity triggers. killed OMG girl viewed stalker Video busted crying, photo deleted Amazing stotus Stoned Free Tollowers Phone TEXT Stripping facebook Cash Farmville Coin year old Zynga Mafiawars diet toolbar pounds asleep The Scam Phrase Cloud gYOUYOU YOU DUYOUOLI UYOUY YOU YO VOUYO YO Y Smoke signals? VOLY Amessage in a bottle? How about a hook that's right there on your wall,just waiting to get you and your friends caught in a scam. These are the most frequently used scam catch phrases: YO YO is this you V what are you doing in this video dhec/iindout phng x to you when after i saw this I've just found out x about me. Check yours how co /S just found out that how can someone do x? i cannot believe That's and and that's Auntie! that's Ma Pa The whole wave of us. To say that scams are social animals would not be that far-fetched. The same scam usually spreads through several URLS that come in waves. How can you tell it's a wave? If several URLS lead to applications that have almost identical functionalities, spread through approximately the same message, within a short period of time, then that's a wave. The process whereby posted Likejacking content is LIKED without the user's consent or knowledge. Simply put, after clicking a link (to view the content behind it) you find that a message is auto- matically posted on your Wall, in your name, saying that you LIKED that link. "GRAPHIC VIDEO.. Japan "OMG! Look What happens Tsunami Sends WHALE when FATHER catches SMashing Into A Building" DAUGHTER on her WEBCAM" Your friend apparently liked a link to a video you click the link you are redirected to what seems to behind the video there's a hidden be a video like button an automatic post on your wall indicates that you liked that link, although you didn't actually click any like button you unwillingly endorse that link and your friends get into the loop after clicking it A case See who viewed your profile. study According to Bitdefender Safego data, this scam spread through approximately 286 unique URLS per wave, on the average. Variations in the message used in the propagation of the scam: view/viewers, peek, stalk/stalker, see who has viewed/who stalks you, who was your top stalker, etc. These URLS led to 14 unique Facebook applications, on the average. (apps.facebook.com/app_uniq) Based on the data provided by url shortening services that offer statistics on shortened links, these URLS gathered 1,411,743 clicks. The distribution spike per URL is of 34 hours. Busiest Scam Top 5 Clicking Countries* *sample is the BitDefender Safego user base *only scams distributed through goo.gl shortened links 1. USA 2. India 3. UK 4. Canada 5. Australia Share safely with BitDefender safego: http://apps.facebook.com/bd-safego/ All product and company names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners. bitdefender safego It's a bird! It's a plane. No, it's our Social Scam Infograph. Helps you understand the dynamics of online social interactions. Sheds light on the psychological factors exploited by social engineering techniques. Reveals the internal mechanisms of online social scams. The App Promise Land Some apps provide a way of interacting with your friends and visitors in ways that the platform you are using does not allow by default and which copy real-life gestures which border the illicit. We've got apps that promise to become your eyes and spy on people who drop by. math Other apps detective apps (promise to dig up who knows what secret) whizzes (they always populate the virtual world count as busy doers of things: something) artsy apps (ready to help you make your Facebook home more errand boy fortune tellers and apps (they'll take your gifts and best wishes to your friends) horoscope readers, etc. pleasant) Just as in the real world, we've got the good and the bad guys. How do you tell the difference? Tricky app baits 347% profile traffic insights ("see who viewed your profile/ who deleted you", "my profile stalker", etc.) 16.2% social game bonuses (FarmVille, CityVille, etc.) 14.1% shocking images ("this girl killed herself after...", "you will never text again after seeing this", etc.) inexistent Facebook features ("my first status", "how long have you been logged in to facebook", "who poked me the most", a dislike button, etc.) 125% 5,7% free gadgets ( iPhones, iPads, etc.) (84% versions of famous games (Super Mario, The Sims, World of Warcraft, etc.) 4.1% 4,3% malware Other types of less popular threats The Spam Word Cloud, The spam word cloud. This is definitely not cloud number 9, or, for that matter any other cloud you would want your social account to be in or on. We've put together a list of words that are most likely to be appear in scam messages that flood social networks. This is a true WOW Profile dictionary of human curiosity triggers. killed OMG girl viewed stalker Video busted crying, photo deleted Amazing stotus Stoned Free Tollowers Phone TEXT Stripping facebook Cash Farmville Coin year old Zynga Mafiawars diet toolbar pounds asleep The Scam Phrase Cloud gYOUYOU YOU DUYOUOLI UYOUY YOU YO VOUYO YO Y DU OL YO YO V what are you doing in this video Smoke signals? VOLY Amessage in a bottle? How about a hook that's right there on your wall,just waiting to get you and your friends caught in a scam. These are the most frequently used scam catch phrases: is this you dhec/iindout phng x to you when after i saw this I've just found out x about me. Check yours how co /S just found out that how can someone do x? i cannot believe That's and and that's Auntie! that's Ma Pa The whole wave of us. To say that scams are social animals would not be that far-fetched. The same scam usually spreads through several URLS that come in waves. How can you tell it's a wave? If several URLS lead to applications that have almost identical functionalities, spread through approximately the same message, within a short period of time, then that's a wave. The process whereby posted Likejacking content is LIKED without the user's consent or knowledge. Simply put, after clicking a link (to view the content behind it) you find that a message is auto- matically posted on your Wall, in your name, saying that you LIKED that link. "GRAPHIC VIDEO.. Japan "OMG! Look What happens Tsunami Sends WHALE when FATHER catches SMashing Into A Building" DAUGHTER on her WEBCAM" Your friend apparently liked a link to a video you click the link you are redirected to what seems to behind the video there's a hidden be a video like button an automatic post on your wall indicates that you liked that link, although you didn't actually click any like button you unwillingly endorse that link and your friends get into the loop after clicking it A case See who viewed your profile. study According to Bitdefender Safego data, this scam spread through approximately 286 unique URLS per wave, on the average. Variations in the message used in the propagation of the scam: view/viewers, peek, stalk/stalker, see who has viewed/who stalks you, who was your top stalker, etc. These URLS led to 14 unique Facebook applications, on the average. (apps.facebook.com/app_uniq) Based on the data provided by url shortening services that offer statistics on shortened links, these URLS gathered 1,411,743 clicks. The distribution spike per URL is of 34 hours. Busiest Scam Тop 5 Clicking Countries* *sample is the BitDefender Safego user base *only scams distributed through goo.gl shortened links 1. USA 2. India 3. UK 4. Canada 5. Australia Share safely with BitDefender safego: http://apps.facebook.com/bd-safego/ All product and company names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners. bitdefender safego It's a bird! It's a plane. No, it's our Social Scam Infograph. Helps you understand the dynamics of online social interactions. Sheds light on the psychological factors exploited by social engineering techniques. Reveals the internal mechanisms of online social scams. The App Promise Land Some apps provide a way of interacting with your friends and visitors in ways that the platform you are using does not allow by default and which copy real-life gestures which border the illicit. We've got apps that promise to become your eyes and spy on people who drop by. math Other apps detective apps (promise to dig up who knows what secret) whizzes (they always populate the virtual world count as busy doers of things: something) artsy apps (ready to help you make your Facebook home more errand boy fortune tellers and apps (they'll take your gifts and best wishes to your friends) horoscope readers, etc. pleasant) Just as in the real world, we've got the good and the bad guys. How do you tell the difference? Tricky app baits 347% profile traffic insights ("see who viewed your profile/ who deleted you", "my profile stalker", etc.) 16.2% social game bonuses (FarmVille, CityVille, etc.) 14.1% shocking images ("this girl killed herself after...", "you will never text again after seeing this", etc.) inexistent Facebook features ("my first status", "how long have you been logged in to facebook", "who poked me the most", a dislike button, etc.) 125% 5,7% free gadgets ( iPhones, iPads, etc.) (84% versions of famous games (Super Mario, The Sims, World of Warcraft, etc.) 4.1% 4,3% malware Other types of less popular threats The Spam Word Cloud, The spam word cloud. This is definitely not cloud number 9, or, for that matter any other cloud you would want your social account to be in or on. We've put together a list of words that are most likely to be appear in scam messages that flood social networks. This is a true WOW Profile dictionary of human curiosity triggers. killed OMG girl viewed stalker Video busted crying, photo deleted Amazing stotus Stoned Free Tollowers Phone TEXT Stripping facebook Cash Farmville Coin year old Zynga Mafiawars diet toolbar pounds asleep The Scam Phrase Cloud gYOUYOU YOU DUYOUOLI UYOUY YOU YO VOUYO YO Y DU OL YO YO V what are you doing in this video Smoke signals? VOLY Amessage in a bottle? How about a hook that's right there on your wall,just waiting to get you and your friends caught in a scam. These are the most frequently used scam catch phrases: is this you dhec/iindout phng x to you when after i saw this I've just found out x about me. Check yours how co /S just found out that how can someone do x? i cannot believe That's and and that's Auntie! that's Ma Pa The whole wave of us. To say that scams are social animals would not be that far-fetched. The same scam usually spreads through several URLS that come in waves. How can you tell it's a wave? If several URLS lead to applications that have almost identical functionalities, spread through approximately the same message, within a short period of time, then that's a wave. The process whereby posted Likejacking content is LIKED without the user's consent or knowledge. Simply put, after clicking a link (to view the content behind it) you find that a message is auto- matically posted on your Wall, in your name, saying that you LIKED that link. "GRAPHIC VIDEO.. Japan "OMG! Look What happens Tsunami Sends WHALE when FATHER catches SMashing Into A Building" DAUGHTER on her WEBCAM" Your friend apparently liked a link to a video you click the link you are redirected to what seems to behind the video there's a hidden be a video like button an automatic post on your wall indicates that you liked that link, although you didn't actually click any like button you unwillingly endorse that link and your friends get into the loop after clicking it A case See who viewed your profile. study According to Bitdefender Safego data, this scam spread through approximately 286 unique URLS per wave, on the average. Variations in the message used in the propagation of the scam: view/viewers, peek, stalk/stalker, see who has viewed/who stalks you, who was your top stalker, etc. These URLS led to 14 unique Facebook applications, on the average. (apps.facebook.com/app_uniq) Based on the data provided by url shortening services that offer statistics on shortened links, these URLS gathered 1,411,743 clicks. The distribution spike per URL is of 34 hours. Busiest Scam Тop 5 Clicking Countries* *sample is the BitDefender Safego user base *only scams distributed through goo.gl shortened links 1. USA 2. India 3. UK 4. Canada 5. Australia Share safely with BitDefender safego: http://apps.facebook.com/bd-safego/ All product and company names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners. bitdefender safego It's a bird! It's a plane. No, it's our Social Scam Infograph. Helps you understand the dynamics of online social interactions. Sheds light on the psychological factors exploited by social engineering techniques. Reveals the internal mechanisms of online social scams. The App Promise Land Some apps provide a way of interacting with your friends and visitors in ways that the platform you are using does not allow by default and which copy real-life gestures which border the illicit. We've got apps that promise to become your eyes and spy on people who drop by. math Other apps detective apps (promise to dig up who knows what secret) whizzes (they always populate the virtual world count as busy doers of things: something) artsy apps (ready to help you make your Facebook home more errand boy fortune tellers and apps (they'll take your gifts and best wishes to your friends) horoscope readers, etc. pleasant) Just as in the real world, we've got the good and the bad guys. How do you tell the difference? Tricky app baits 347% profile traffic insights ("see who viewed your profile/ who deleted you", "my profile stalker", etc.) 16.2% social game bonuses (FarmVille, CityVille, etc.) 14.1% shocking images ("this girl killed herself after...", "you will never text again after seeing this", etc.) inexistent Facebook features ("my first status", "how long have you been logged in to facebook", "who poked me the most", a dislike button, etc.) 125% 5,7% free gadgets ( iPhones, iPads, etc.) (84% versions of famous games (Super Mario, The Sims, World of Warcraft, etc.) 4.1% 4,3% malware Other types of less popular threats The Spam Word Cloud, The spam word cloud. This is definitely not cloud number 9, or, for that matter any other cloud you would want your social account to be in or on. We've put together a list of words that are most likely to be appear in scam messages that flood social networks. This is a true WOW Profile dictionary of human curiosity triggers. killed OMG girl viewed stalker Video busted crying, photo deleted Amazing stotus Stoned Free Tollowers Phone TEXT Stripping facebook Cash Farmville Coin year old Zynga Mafiawars diet toolbar pounds asleep The Scam Phrase Cloud gYOUYOU YOU DUYOUOLI UYOUY YOU YO VOUYO YO Y DU OL YO YO V what are you doing in this video Smoke signals? VOLY Amessage in a bottle? How about a hook that's right there on your wall,just waiting to get you and your friends caught in a scam. These are the most frequently used scam catch phrases: is this you dhec/iindout phng x to you when after i saw this I've just found out x about me. Check yours how co /S just found out that how can someone do x? i cannot believe That's and and that's Auntie! that's Ma Pa The whole wave of us. To say that scams are social animals would not be that far-fetched. The same scam usually spreads through several URLS that come in waves. How can you tell it's a wave? If several URLS lead to applications that have almost identical functionalities, spread through approximately the same message, within a short period of time, then that's a wave. The process whereby posted Likejacking content is LIKED without the user's consent or knowledge. Simply put, after clicking a link (to view the content behind it) you find that a message is auto- matically posted on your Wall, in your name, saying that you LIKED that link. "GRAPHIC VIDEO.. Japan "OMG! Look What happens Tsunami Sends WHALE when FATHER catches SMashing Into A Building" DAUGHTER on her WEBCAM" Your friend apparently liked a link to a video you click the link you are redirected to what seems to behind the video there's a hidden be a video like button an automatic post on your wall indicates that you liked that link, although you didn't actually click any like button you unwillingly endorse that link and your friends get into the loop after clicking it A case See who viewed your profile. study According to Bitdefender Safego data, this scam spread through approximately 286 unique URLS per wave, on the average. Variations in the message used in the propagation of the scam: view/viewers, peek, stalk/stalker, see who has viewed/who stalks you, who was your top stalker, etc. These URLS led to 14 unique Facebook applications, on the average. (apps.facebook.com/app_uniq) Based on the data provided by url shortening services that offer statistics on shortened links, these URLS gathered 1,411,743 clicks. The distribution spike per URL is of 34 hours. Busiest Scam Тop 5 Clicking Countries* *sample is the BitDefender Safego user base *only scams distributed through goo.gl shortened links 1. USA 2. India 3. UK 4. Canada 5. Australia Share safely with BitDefender safego: http://apps.facebook.com/bd-safego/ All product and company names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners. bitdefender safego It's a bird! It's a plane. No, it's our Social Scam Infograph. Helps you understand the dynamics of online social interactions. Sheds light on the psychological factors exploited by social engineering techniques. Reveals the internal mechanisms of online social scams. The App Promise Land Some apps provide a way of interacting with your friends and visitors in ways that the platform you are using does not allow by default and which copy real-life gestures which border the illicit. We've got apps that promise to become your eyes and spy on people who drop by. math Other apps detective apps (promise to dig up who knows what secret) whizzes (they always populate the virtual world count as busy doers of things: something) artsy apps (ready to help you make your Facebook home more errand boy fortune tellers and apps (they'll take your gifts and best wishes to your friends) horoscope readers, etc. pleasant) Just as in the real world, we've got the good and the bad guys. How do you tell the difference? Tricky app baits 347% profile traffic insights ("see who viewed your profile/ who deleted you", "my profile stalker", etc.) 16.2% social game bonuses (FarmVille, CityVille, etc.) 14.1% shocking images ("this girl killed herself after...", "you will never text again after seeing this", etc.) inexistent Facebook features ("my first status", "how long have you been logged in to facebook", "who poked me the most", a dislike button, etc.) 125% 5,7% free gadgets ( iPhones, iPads, etc.) (84% versions of famous games (Super Mario, The Sims, World of Warcraft, etc.) 4.1% 4,3% malware Other types of less popular threats The Spam Word Cloud, The spam word cloud. This is definitely not cloud number 9, or, for that matter any other cloud you would want your social account to be in or on. We've put together a list of words that are most likely to be appear in scam messages that flood social networks. This is a true WOW Profile dictionary of human curiosity triggers. killed OMG girl viewed stalker Video busted crying, photo deleted Amazing stotus Stoned Free Tollowers Phone TEXT Stripping facebook Cash Farmville Coin year old Zynga Mafiawars diet toolbar pounds asleep The Scam Phrase Cloud gYOUYOU YOU DUYOUOLI UYOUY YOU YO VOUYO YO Y DU OL YO YO V what are you doing in this video Smoke signals? VOLY Amessage in a bottle? How about a hook that's right there on your wall,just waiting to get you and your friends caught in a scam. These are the most frequently used scam catch phrases: is this you dhec/iindout phng x to you when after i saw this I've just found out x about me. Check yours how co /S just found out that how can someone do x? i cannot believe That's and and that's Auntie! that's Ma Pa The whole wave of us. To say that scams are social animals would not be that far-fetched. The same scam usually spreads through several URLS that come in waves. How can you tell it's a wave? If several URLS lead to applications that have almost identical functionalities, spread through approximately the same message, within a short period of time, then that's a wave. The process whereby posted Likejacking content is LIKED without the user's consent or knowledge. Simply put, after clicking a link (to view the content behind it) you find that a message is auto- matically posted on your Wall, in your name, saying that you LIKED that link. "GRAPHIC VIDEO.. Japan "OMG! Look What happens Tsunami Sends WHALE when FATHER catches SMashing Into A Building" DAUGHTER on her WEBCAM" Your friend apparently liked a link to a video you click the link you are redirected to what seems to behind the video there's a hidden be a video like button an automatic post on your wall indicates that you liked that link, although you didn't actually click any like button you unwillingly endorse that link and your friends get into the loop after clicking it A case See who viewed your profile. study According to Bitdefender Safego data, this scam spread through approximately 286 unique URLS per wave, on the average. Variations in the message used in the propagation of the scam: view/viewers, peek, stalk/stalker, see who has viewed/who stalks you, who was your top stalker, etc. These URLS led to 14 unique Facebook applications, on the average. (apps.facebook.com/app_uniq) Based on the data provided by url shortening services that offer statistics on shortened links, these URLS gathered 1,411,743 clicks. The distribution spike per URL is of 34 hours. Busiest Scam Тop 5 Clicking Countries* *sample is the BitDefender Safego user base *only scams distributed through goo.gl shortened links 1. USA 2. India 3. UK 4. Canada 5. Australia Share safely with BitDefender safego: http://apps.facebook.com/bd-safego/ All product and company names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners. bitdefender safego It's a bird! It's a plane. No, it's our Social Scam Infograph. Helps you understand the dynamics of online social interactions. Sheds light on the psychological factors exploited by social engineering techniques. Reveals the internal mechanisms of online social scams. The App Promise Land Some apps provide a way of interacting with your friends and visitors in ways that the platform you are using does not allow by default and which copy real-life gestures which border the illicit. We've got apps that promise to become your eyes and spy on people who drop by. math Other apps detective apps (promise to dig up who knows what secret) whizzes (they always populate the virtual world count as busy doers of things: something) artsy apps (ready to help you make your Facebook home more errand boy fortune tellers and apps (they'll take your gifts and best wishes to your friends) horoscope readers, etc. pleasant) Just as in the real world, we've got the good and the bad guys. How do you tell the difference? Tricky app baits 347% profile traffic insights ("see who viewed your profile/ who deleted you", "my profile stalker", etc.) 16.2% social game bonuses (FarmVille, CityVille, etc.) 14.1% shocking images ("this girl killed herself after...", "you will never text again after seeing this", etc.) inexistent Facebook features ("my first status", "how long have you been logged in to facebook", "who poked me the most", a dislike button, etc.) 125% 5,7% free gadgets ( iPhones, iPads, etc.) (84% versions of famous games (Super Mario, The Sims, World of Warcraft, etc.) 4.1% 4,3% malware Other types of less popular threats The Spam Word Cloud, The spam word cloud. This is definitely not cloud number 9, or, for that matter any other cloud you would want your social account to be in or on. We've put together a list of words that are most likely to be appear in scam messages that flood social networks. This is a true WOW Profile dictionary of human curiosity triggers. killed OMG girl viewed stalker Video busted crying, photo deleted Amazing stotus Stoned Free Tollowers Phone TEXT Stripping facebook Cash Farmville Coin year old Zynga Mafiawars diet toolbar pounds asleep The Scam Phrase Cloud gYOUYOU YOU DUYOUOLI UYOUY YOU YO VOUYO YO Y DU OL YO YO V what are you doing in this video Smoke signals? VOLY Amessage in a bottle? How about a hook that's right there on your wall,just waiting to get you and your friends caught in a scam. These are the most frequently used scam catch phrases: is this you dhec/iindout phng x to you when after i saw this I've just found out x about me. Check yours how co /S just found out that how can someone do x? i cannot believe That's and and that's Auntie! that's Ma Pa The whole wave of us. To say that scams are social animals would not be that far-fetched. The same scam usually spreads through several URLS that come in waves. How can you tell it's a wave? If several URLS lead to applications that have almost identical functionalities, spread through approximately the same message, within a short period of time, then that's a wave. The process whereby posted Likejacking content is LIKED without the user's consent or knowledge. Simply put, after clicking a link (to view the content behind it) you find that a message is auto- matically posted on your Wall, in your name, saying that you LIKED that link. "GRAPHIC VIDEO.. Japan "OMG! Look What happens Tsunami Sends WHALE when FATHER catches SMashing Into A Building" DAUGHTER on her WEBCAM" Your friend apparently liked a link to a video you click the link you are redirected to what seems to behind the video there's a hidden be a video like button an automatic post on your wall indicates that you liked that link, although you didn't actually click any like button you unwillingly endorse that link and your friends get into the loop after clicking it A case See who viewed your profile. study According to Bitdefender Safego data, this scam spread through approximately 286 unique URLS per wave, on the average. Variations in the message used in the propagation of the scam: view/viewers, peek, stalk/stalker, see who has viewed/who stalks you, who was your top stalker, etc. These URLS led to 14 unique Facebook applications, on the average. (apps.facebook.com/app_uniq) Based on the data provided by url shortening services that offer statistics on shortened links, these URLS gathered 1,411,743 clicks. The distribution spike per URL is of 34 hours. Busiest Scam Тop 5 Clicking Countries* *sample is the BitDefender Safego user base *only scams distributed through goo.gl shortened links 1. USA 2. India 3. UK 4. Canada 5. Australia Share safely with BitDefender safego: http://apps.facebook.com/bd-safego/ All product and company names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners.