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5 Popular Facebook Scams (and How to Avoid Them)

Just as bearded hipsters migrate from bar to bar in pursuit of young ladies to ogle, so too have scammers and hackers followed their prey from MySpace to Facebook. As a result, the social network once deemed the "safe" option is now plagued by legions of 419 scammers, phishers, and peddlers of malware. Fortunately, there are a few simple rules Facebookers can follow to stay safe: Never click ...

New Study Shows Phishing Not a High Income Business

Those who that think perpetrators of online fraud (phishers) are marauding around St. Tropez in a cigarette boat filled with the money of unsuspecting victims, take heart. They aren't rich after all, according to Slashdot. Well, most of them, anyway. Phishers are running themselves out of business through oversaturation. The more one phisher works, the less phishing opportunities there are for ...