Hackers are Everywhere

Unfortunately, nothing on the Internet is immune from unscrupulous hackers, including Facebook.

I received an innocent looking message in Facebook chat from Denise Wakeman (@DeniseWakeman on Twitter). The message raised my suspicion since I don’t know Denise very well, but I saw a Facebook status update in the news feed from her saying ”I’m stuck in London” so I said hello. After a bit of small talk, the person said “I was mugged at gun point and could you help me?” Help was them asking for me to wire them some money so they could get home.

This scam was written up in Techcrunch in January and is still being used to con people into wiring money. Read more on Hackers are Everywhere…