We have seen many Facebook Scams like “OMFG: A girl raped by her teacher in the classroom”, “Google+ – Get Invite”, “Marika Fruscio” and the way Facebook is being hit by the social media scammers to get use of the loop holes on the platform, although team Facebook is taking all measures to get rid of these scams, the spammers were hitting real hard and comes up new scams each and every day.
How Does Facebook Scams Look Like?
Facebook scams typically can be termed as the spam message which could be seen in yours news line or in your private chat box which contains phishing links, usually the scams will be talking about some free and fancy offers like “Free Facebook t-shirts on 7th anniversary” and tends you to click on the links and once you click on the link it will land you to the page and asks you for the further information to claim your free t-shirt and once you have done it a spam message which you read earlier will be posted on your and your friends walls and spreads in a similar passion.
How To Stay Safe From Facebook Scams?
The best measure to stay safe is keep away from such links “Prevention is always better cure” and in case if you get effected with any of these scams, the first and foremost thing to do is to alert all your friends about the spam (at least it will help them) and if possible remove all your spam related posts on your wall.
As a safety measure it is also advised to change your login credentials and most importantly have an eye on your Facebook apps, remove all unwanted apps which you are not using and feel catchy and warn yourself for tending to such posts in the future. It is always better to hide Your email Address From Facebook App/Game Developers.
Hope you all guys won’t fall in prey for Facebook Scams and stay safe on the world’s largest social networking site. Happy Facebooking…!
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