Be protected from Facebook Scams: Malicious Apps

Unique and more complicated method of Facebook Scamming is developing day by day. You need to be extra careful to be safe from them. Recently, I have been informed by Caitlin Regan, a reader of this Blog about this new and more cunning method of Facebook Scamming.

Back to the main topic. You know that you can use apps, play games online from your browser in Facebook. Developers can create and upload apps to Facebook for free. Facebook publishes all the apps which are uploaded without reviewing them. This is a great mistake on behalf of Facebook for the protection of their users personal data. Due to Facebook's ignorance  it is really easy for Hackers to create Malicious Apps and distribute them. One click on the Wrong App and you will be the Hackers next victim.

Let me try to make you understand how App Scamming might work. A malicious app will be disguised as some other app, i.e "Your Total Profile Viewers" or "Horoscope Fantasy". When you click the App, you will be asked for to give permission to the App to see your Public Profile and/or post on your Behalf. There will be no reason to suspect anything, so you will give permission. From here, the Scamming starts. The App can do several things to harm you.

For instance, it can collect your Email ID and send spam mails to you with viruses or Keyloggers or incident advertises. It can also download software, informal video and advertises to your system anonymously without letting you know. It may even post links to Phishing Page in your Friends wall. I talked with a friend of mine who was a victim app scamming. And he said that the App
sent some malicious links to his friends without his knowledge.

Now, how can you be safe from this attack. A Report of Social Media Scams was published by Bitdefender a few days ago. According to their research, scam apps are disguised as some specific type of apps. Among them highest number of scams were done using apps like these.

1. Total profile viewers - 23.86% Scamming are done.

2. Check if a friend has deleted you - 5.18% Scamming are done

3. Free Disneyland tickets - 2.55% Scamming are done

4. Enable your dislike button here - 2.15% Scamming are done

5. See who is spying you- 1.67% Scamming are done

The best way to keep safe to not use Apps like those. These are not that useful Apps. They just give you random results each time you use the app. Usually people just use them out of  curiosity. Being too much curious is never good. I know it's not worth saying, but I would like to remind you that - If Something is too good to be  true, then probably it isn't. Don't be greedy...Don't click everything with the word "Free" in it. Nothing in life is "Free". If something is given to you for free, there must be something involved. You know Tips Of Tech is 100% free, but the thing you don't know is we earn from ads in this Blog.

Use your common sense and don't use all the Apps recommended to you. App scamming is not that common yet, so being careful from now can save you from being a victim of Apps Scam. Hopefully Facebook will start being more picky about their Apps soon. Thanks to Caitlin for telling me about this Scamming method or else you would have not known about this.