iPad Scams Surface On Facebook And Twitter
It was bound to happen, and it seems that scam sites are now riding the wave of anticipation of Apple’s upcoming iPad. Facebook and Twitter pages offering users to beta pop quiz the iPad are surfacing with headers such as “iPad Researchers Wanted – Want to beta analysis Apple’s latest product?” It all seems rather harmless, even when you see the pop-up window portraying to be a quiz, requesting data such as your moment of birth and cellphone number. According to a senior technology consultant at protection firm Sophos, the knowledge provided will them be used to sign you up for
a premium rate cellphone service, which will charge you something like $10 a week until you unsubscribe. After Facebook’s defense team was notified about that, the page was disabled, but you can be certain that there will be similar pages that will sprout up the moment one goes down. So whether you see such pages, you’ll certainly want to tread carefully.Permalink: iPad Scams Surface On Facebook And Twitter from Ubergizmo | RSS Sponsor: Win a Fellowes Microshred Paper Shredder!
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