Scam Alert: Facebook – New Video Scam!

We have discovered a new Facebook scam. Its called ‘malicious tagging’ and is very much on the rise.

Here’s how to protect yourself…

The essence of this new scam is a link on your Facebook page which looks like it leads to a video tagged by about 20 or so of your friends. The trick is that you think that if 20+ friends are recommending the video, it must be OK, right?

However, when you click on it, another link pops up saying that the video cannot be played until you update your Adobe Flash Player. The problem is if you click on that link, you download malware that gives hackers access to personal data.

Recommended Action:

Update Adobe and any other software only through their respective websites. Never update software from other sites, especially through pop-ups on social networks or unfamiliar Web pages.

Socializing on Facebook can be a fun place.  However, you can sometimes use it to overshare personal information. We don’t believe it is a good idea to overshare any of your personal and private information on any website, especially a Social Media website. So be careful who you share with and what you upload from the net.