Facebook distress scam

In this blog we will discuss Facebook distress scam.

In  case of Facebook Distress scams, you are fooled by your own Facebook friends. This is not the scam if your friend is a fraudster,but the scam where your friend’s account has been hacked by fraudsters. While you are  surfing through Facebook, you suddenly get a message/chat message from a friend. It may say that the friend and his/her family are stuck in some foreign country without money. The message will say that they have been mugged and are left with nothing but their passports. The friend may also ask you to immediately send money through Western Union.

You are pressurized to act and you send the money without even checking about the person’s whereabouts because it is your friend. The money wired to the person i will be lost forever.

In order to avoid such things ,check all your transactions with friends on social networking sites. Personal information should never be revealed.

If you want to understand more about the meaning of scam, Tutorvista scam definition will be of helpful one.
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