FaceCrooks helps you protect yourself from viral Facebook scams

Facebook has a massive userbase -- somewhere between 500 and 600 million users at the moment. The vast majority of those people are average users, who aren't as aware of the dangers lurking on Facebook as more security-minded types. That makes it a very juicy target for scammers and malware distributors, and they're not shy about trying to take advantage of unsuspecting users.

Viral scams are all over Facebook, but they can be hard to avoid if you don't know what you're looking for. If you've got friends and family members who could use a little extra help, send them over to FaceCrooks.com -- a blog which keeps tabs on scams which are spreading on the social networking site. Knowing which "OMG! Watch this video!" posts actually came from friends and which ones are the results of a scam is an important step in protecting your privacy and data on Facebook, after all.

FaceCrooks helps you protect yourself from viral Facebook scams originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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