[AccessD] It just goes to show ya

I am one of the 9 people on the planet who doesn't use FB at all - even so I get scammer emails saying "X has commented on your photo" or "Y wants to be your friend" click on the link blah blah - not having a FB profile saves me a lot of time and bother.

Mind you, only yesterday I did have someone pop up on yahoo msgnr on a profile of someone I hadn't spoken to in years wanting me to click on a link so I could apply for a free Apple computer or product - apparently Apple are giving away product in honour of Steve Jobs.  Yeah... right....   "Delete!".

I was lucky as that one was clearly a scam.

That said, I think John has a great point - you really can't be too careful and even the experienced and knowledgeable can get caught out.



-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
Sent: Friday, 16 December 2011 12:09 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [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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