Anthony Morrison report on Facebook and Twitter scams. Anthony Morrison: “Every month, Facebook and Twitter users are increasing exponentially. Unfortunately; both old and new users are being victims of scams on social media sites”. Anthony Morrison continues: “Today, social media scams are what e-mail scams used to be before. What makes social media scams different is that today scammers not only spreading malware but also stealing identities”. Anthony Morrison continues: “Scam artists are also brand jacking and they are hurting companies too”. “Phishing scam attacks on social networking sites increased by 164% over the past year” Anthony Morrison continues: “At least 20% of social media users have been affected by online scams schemes”.  “But there are many ways to keep yourself safe from scam” Anthony Morrison concluded. “Over   my next posts I will include strategies that will keep you safe from scam on social media sites and scams on the internet”.

Anthony Morrison Alert on Social Media Scams: There are many scams that revolve around social media sites. Social media sites are great places but it is necessary to learn how to protect yourself from scam.  Anthony Morrison says: “The most commons scam in social media is identity theft”.  Anthony Morrison continues: “There are also other scams that involve brand hijacking, privacy issues among the most common scams”. Anthony Morrison refers to the process as this: scammers create profiles and take the opportunity to become “friends”.  They use these profiles to earn the scam victim’s trust and then use this trust against them in phishing or other scams. Anthony Morrison scam prediction is that “scam will probably increase and get worse”. Anthony Morrison continues: “However; this should not stop people from using social media sites. This is just teaching us that we have to be more careful in what information we share on these sites”.  Anthony Morrison scam tips include not clicking or answering messages that are from unknown people or clicking on any link that you do not recognize.  Visit us soon for more Anthony Morrison Scam and Fraud alerts and tips on how to avoid them!

Anthony Morrison scam alert: Scams spike in social media sites.  Every day, e-mail scams are becoming more popular that target users on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter. The scam e-mail are very similar to traditional phishing scam e-mails.  Just the traditional scam e-mails; new social media messages that plant malicious software that steals passwords on the victim’s PC.  Scammers send out e-mails that have the appearance of legitimate messages from each social site. This scam e-mails ask the user to “update” their profile information by clicking on a link and entering their username and password information. In this scam them the users are asked to use an “update” tool which is usually a link to a password stealing trojan.