Sunday, 24 November 2013

Fraud in Social Media






Fraud has become a big issue on the web as well, there is identity theft which is so easily done over Facebook by making a fake account, twitter, LinkedIn almost any social media outlet doesn't require any identification just an email. There are scams being done over Facebook pages as well, people taking advantage of credit card numbers and finding other ways to scam people. For example recent events on Facebook identity theft has led to fraud being perpetrated with stolen identity of friends. [i]

By: Braydon C.



[i] Rob, P. (2013). Q&A: How to avoid a facebook scam? Be a skeptic. USA Today. Retrieved from http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/03/03/facebook-scam-timeline-social-media/1953975/  

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