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As you probably know, lots of celebrities use Facebook to keep in touch with their fans and share news of upcoming events with them.
Unfortunately, lots of scammers are busy piggy-backing off the success of those celebrities by cloning their accounts and using those fake accounts to scam the celebrities’ fans.
One of the scammers’ favorite targets is Ellen DeGeneres because of her well-known penchant for giving things away, both on her show and via her social media accounts. [Read more…]
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Sunday, February 13, 2022.
• Here’s a great tool for brushing up on your typing
• Scam alert: Be wary of duplicate friend requests on Facebook
• Q&A: How do I remove my credit card from Google Play?
• 6 tips for shopping for ‘healthy’ food items
• Info about my photo / file recovery service
The Coronavirus pandemic has left lots of folks looking for some way to make up for lost income.
Unfortunately, that presents an opportunity for crooks and scammers to make a few extra bucks as well.
The latest scam to hit the Facebook world is targeting people who could use a little financial help at this difficult point in time.
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Regular readers of this blog know I often warn against installing apps from any repository besides the Google, Apple and Microsoft app stores because third-party app stores are typically riddled with malicious and malware-laden apps.
The big three mentioned above generally do a pretty good job at ensuring that the apps offered via their app stores are safe, but they are far from perfect.
To that point, a recent discovery by researchers for Dr. Web Antivirus has resulted in Google booting a total of nine malicious apps from the Google Play Store.
Just when I think the scammers on Facebook have reached rock bottom, they manage to come up with an even more despicable scam.
This ugly “sick child” scam makes the rounds from time to time, and unfortunately it’s back again.
It always works something like this…