Thursday, September 2, 2010

Watch out for Facebook Scams!

I saw on a friends wall this link regarding seeing "The SHOCKING hidden message on Coca-Cola logo!"  Well, first it will ask you to "click on the like button below".  DON'T DO IT!

These are SCAMS!  Until more facebook users learn to be suspicious of liking pages scams like these will continue. Whenever you have to "add" or "like" these secondary pages, you need to understand that information is being added to your computer.  This data could be tracking you or sabotaging you.  You have NO idea until the damage is done. 

First thing you want to do is no longer "like" these type of pages.  Then, remove suspicious applications to no longer have access to your account.  Third, change your password and make it a strong one.  What is a strong one?  Well use caps, lowercase, symbols and numbers and best of all use an acronym.  Here is an example of a sentence.  "My oldest child was born in 93."  A password could be created from this sentence that would look like this:  Mocwb!93.  Again, "My oldest child was born !n 93."  This is a good idea to have a password like this.

A good page that you may consider joining is Sophos.  They will help you know what is a scam or a real threat to you and your facebook security.

If you are interested in seeing the subliminal messages that are "said" to be on the coke can, follow this link.  I could clearly see a few of these but a few took more imagination than I have.

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