[Closed] PSA - Facebook Scam

Why would you ever give your CC details to Facebook though?

So you can buy more friends???

DrP

why would your friend be asking you to recover your account?

you have nice friends.

edit to fix the morphing into yoda.

Sounds like a friends account has been hacked.

I received a phishing email from myself last week.

peterfile - Member
Why would you ever give your CC details to Facebook though?

facebook are charging for contacting some people now

the wtf would be stupid enough to pay to email a 'celeb'........?

[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/08/facebook-charging-users-celebrities ]http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/08/facebook-charging-users-celebrities[/url]

Just to clarify - yes my friend's account had been hacked and no I didn't give my card details, it was that that tipped me off that something was up...

Feel pretty stupid to be honest as I am usually much more on the ball security-wise...

Cheers

Danny B

I get daily spam like this, alongside notifications that i have parcels from various destinations from around the world awaiting collection, girls who want to meet me, funny blue tablets, banks wanting me to log onto my account etc

its all obvious spam. best to just delete all of it.

the wtf would be stupid enough to pay to email a 'celeb'........?

Apparently it's going to be £40 to send a message to Piers Morgan. £10 a letter.

Apparently it's going to be £40 to send a message to Piers Morgan. £10 a letter.

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There was a quite grown up man on R4 a few weeks ago talking about computer security and how he thinks information currently in the public domain will be used and abused in the future. His advice to anybody comtemplating putting any personal information on Farcebook or ****ter was: "Don't - just don't!"

I'd rather lean over the garden fence and have a yarn with my neighbours.

If you're a business user they can charge for some stuff.

I'd rather lean over the garden fence and have a yarn with my neighbours.

Yeah but my family mean more to me than my neighbours.

Why would you ever give your CC details to Facebook though?

They have mine. And they charge me weekly for various things.

Lots of people have a Business Facebook account linked to a personal account.

His advice to anybody comtemplating putting any personal information on Farcebook or ****ter was: "Don't - just don't!"

And FB and Google etc. know this.

Just as an example, that is why they try to urge viewers of photos to tag everyone, in preference to the uploader or the person in the image. And there's virtually NO security available to the tagged person. The only ways to never be tagged on FB is to either not exist, or to never be in someone's photo. So yeah... it's not necessarily ME that puts personal information about me on the web 😉

Would never ever click a link in an email, even if it did appear to be due to a specific friend. Login to FB directly and it's instantly obvious if there's something that needs attending too.

And there's virtually NO security available to the tagged person. The only ways to never be tagged on FB is to either not exist, or to never be in someone's photo.

You mean no security other than an email or notification from Facebook that you've been tagged, and then the ability to remove the tag which also prevents you from being re-tagged in the photo?

Nope, no security at all.

I don't click links in any Facebook email anymore, whatever the email is about, I always make a point of typing the address into my browser as anything you get emailed about will pop up on facebook anyway. So easy to enter your details into the login page without realising its a fake site.

I'd rather lean over the garden fence and have a yarn with my neighbours.

Said the guy on the internet forum.

I'd rather lean over the garden fence and have a yarn with my neighbours.
Said the guy on the internet forum.

😆
I use Fb a lot. I get regular direct updates from bands and musicians who I like, who give me much quicker updates on tours and releases than I ever used to get when relying on some web admin at a record company; more often than not its the artists themselves that I'm chatting with, so they know who you are when you meet them after gigs for signings, etc.
One brilliant Fb feed at the moment is Col. Chris Hadfield, who's posting up the most amazing photos that he's taking from orbit on the ISS, a couple recently were from directly over London and a wide-angle view of most of Southern England, both at night.
Taken with a Nikon D3S, apparently.

You mean no security other than an email or notification from Facebook that you've been tagged, and then the ability to remove the tag which also prevents you from being re-tagged in the photo?

Nope, no security at all.

There's no way to stop anyone tagging you in the first place. At least at the moment I don't think they're feeding that data in to their facial recognition algorithm (in EU), or at least not using algorithm results make suggestions for other users.

Just give me a setting that allows me to choose if people can tag me (or not).

The only real settings they provide are to untag afterwards and not let a tag be seen by public. The privacy/security settings do not stop anyone feeding information about others to a huge foreign corporation.