Social network sites have achieved unprecedented grown in the last couple of years. The numbers of members in the social networks are drastically surged, which tempts the scammers and phishers to steal the identities of the unknown users. The leading social networking sites such as Face book and Twitter have been used by the phishers to steal the sensitive information from the site.
Some links pose to be legitimate which may offer a free mobile or camera and asks you to follow it. It will look like the link which is shared by your friend; but it might not be true. They might be viruses which only affect your hard drive, but also tend to steal your sensitive personal information such as credit card number, social security number and your other arcane details.
A research study suggests that more than 40 percent of the social network members are victimized for the phishing and scamming. Their personal identity is used for various activities such as spreading viruses, online credit card fraud, unwanted pornography, spamming and phishing. Twitter has recently cautioned its users that the phishers mishandles the innocent victims’ passwords and user names for identity theft or steal money.
There are number of ways, how the scammers are getting access to your mail id or social networking account. The main method is by sending you purportedly authentic message from the service providers and asking for the users to confirm their username and password.
Once the scammers take the control of your social network account, tend to change the account details and start doing their business as if it is their own account. The site they acquired can be used to send bogus mails to other users to cheat them.
It is largely reported now days that internet users are receiving messages from their email as well as social networking friends, which contains links which takes off to the fake websites posing as legitimate link from a popular site. The public are victimized, once they enter into the site using their password and username, since those are stored.
Tips for social Network safety
- Be cautious while getting links form unknown persons or even from friends. Don’t follow the links unless and until you are too sure about it. We would advise you to treat these links as you would do in case it is received in your mail.
- Make sure about your personal information in the social networking sites. Often check your information in the site and be sure about any unwanted sensitive information is not provided therein.
- Hackers may use your friend’s account as if it is their own. Try to know about the link’s authenticity prior by any other communication to stay away from being victimized. The hackers might have broken into your friends’ account and send you links. They usually send invitation to join some other social networking sites, through which they can hack your account.
- Avoid the social network sites to fetch your email account details and contact details. While you join a social network site, it may offer you to find out your mail friends in the site by entering your mail id and password. This is a vulnerable part of your account information. By entering your details in the site you are allowing the networking site to access the information which is a menace to details.
- It is always safer to access your social networking site through direct access the site or through browser. Don’t follow the links that are sent to your mail id to enter in the social network site, as it is not a proper way. That might be sent by a third party, who may save your information and may not safeguard it.
- The network you form on the social network site is very important. Don’t allow the unknown person to be your friend or in your contacts. They might steal your personal identity and use it for cheating purposes.
- Many social networking sites allow its users to download and install third party software in their page. Do thorough research before engaging in such activities, since criminals may use this opportunity and provide their own manipulated software to steal your information from the site. Use latest antivirus protections and file walls in your system to save your information.
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