понедељак, 12. април 2010.

FACEBOOK SCAM TAKES AIM AT WHOLE FOODS FANS


Scammers target Facebook fans of Whole Foods Market grocery store, promising a $500 gift card, but they're really out to swipe users' personal information.

Facebook is scrambling to squash the latest incident of malware to crop up on the popular social networking site. The company is working with Whole Foods Market, the Texas-based upscale grocery store, whose fans have been targeted by a confidence scam that offers a $500 gift card, but is really a ploy to snare users' personal information.The latest malware trap on the popular social networking site promises a $500 gift card to the upscale grocery store. But all you really get is your personal data exposed. Facebook and Whole Foods Market are scrambling to prevent fans of the upscale grocery chain from falling for yet another malware ruse on the popular social networking site.First discovered Thursday, the scam purports to offer a free $500 gift card to the Austin, Texas-based grocery chain and has been spreading virally through Facebook's "fan pages," infecting an unknown number of users' PCs and mobile devices.

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