[AccessD] It just goes to show ya

Yep, I don't accept friends I don't know on FB.  There are scams out there
that are VERY sophisticated!

Charlotte Foust

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:47 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote:

> I got an email this morning - XYZ wants to be your friend on facebook.  I
> don't know xyz, but I often go look to see if maybe I do know them out in a
> circle somehow.
>
> I clicked on the link...  It *looked* just like those things from
> Facebook...
>
> You guessed it, it was a social engineering attempt to get me to a page to
> do something bad to my computer.
>
> I run firefox in DropMyRights sandbox AND I have a widget to prevent
> running scripts in firefox which just saved my bacon.
>
> It just goes to show though.  I *know* about this stuff, I am very careful
> and I still got suckered.  Only my safeguards saved me.
>
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