While Socializing, Don’t Be A Phish

You know they’ll eventually get there. Wherever you go, they’ll be there. It’s like they’re attached to your hip and there’s really no good way to get rid of them except be informed and stay alert. I’m talking about spammers and hackers.

In 2008, according to MessageLabs Intelligence report, phishing attempts are pretty popular in social networks. Sometimes, these people would try to gain access to your own social network accounts to post comments and messages on your friends’ pages that contain spam links.

At other times you may get a fake invite to join a bogus social network group. In these groups, the scammers link to blogs and sites that redirect you to their final destination where they deliver the payload or trick you to fill out personal information to be sold to marketing companies or used in other unsavory ways.

Just be careful out there, but you’re always more than welcome to follow me – spam free