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“Hungry Bear Tears Woman to Pieces” Facebook Video Scam
February 18, 2014 - Here’s a Facebook scam / fake video currently in circulation. Warning: a generally terrible standard of English used throughout: “Shocking Video:...
Scam Lures Facebook Users with “Hot Video”, Drops Trojan
April 16, 2015 - In January, The Guardian published a piece on Facebook‘s noteworthy success with its user-generated videos along with their growing shareability and viewability within the...
“Huge Snake Eats Man Alive!” Video Scam Spreads on Facebook
June 18, 2014 - Users of Facebook may feel that familiar feeling dawning upon seeing a post, such as the one below, that is quite...
Google ad for Facebook redirects to scam
April 23, 2024 - Beware of this malicious ad campaign currently making the rounds. Read our blog for more details and how to protect yourself.
Facebook fatal accident scam still rages on
February 7, 2024 - We look at a scam campaign on Facebook that continues to do the rounds, and how you can recover your compromised account.
“I’ll miss him so much” Facebook scam uses BBC branding to lure victims
January 16, 2024 - We found a Facebook scam that aims to redirect victims to sites promoting PUPs, adware, or other fraudulent sites.
4 sneaky scams from 2023
December 28, 2023 - Online scams abound every day, but these four scams from 2023 were particularly devious.
Warning: Victims’ faces placed on explicit images in sextortion scam
June 8, 2023 - The FBI has issued a warning about criminals digitally manipulating people’s faces on to pornographic images—known as deepfaking—and then using those images to...
Facebook clickbait leads to money scam for users
June 7, 2023 - Online criminals are notorious for lurking on social media sites and tricking users into visiting malicious links. We recently observed a scheme where Facebook users are clicking...
Romance scammer deepfakes Mark Ruffalo to con elderly artist
October 3, 2022 - Deepfakes have settled into a groove, as most scam techniques do. It seems most deepfakers have decided to make as much...