1. It’s a bird! It’s a plane.
No, it’s our Social Scam Infograph.
Helps you understand the
dynamics of online social interactions.
Sheds light on the psychological factors
exploited by social engineering techniques.
Reveals the internal mechanisms of
online social scams.

2. Some apps provide a way of interacting with your friends
and visitors in ways that the platform you are using does The App
not allow by default and which copy real-life gestures Promise
which border the illicit. We’ve got apps that promise to
become your eyes and spy on people who drop by. Land
math Other apps
whizzes detective apps
(they always
populate the (promise
count virtual world to dig up who knows
something) as busy doers what secret)
of things:
artsy apps
(ready to help you errand boy
make your fortune tellers and apps (they’ll take
Facebook home more horoscope readers, etc. your gifts and best
pleasant) wishes to your
friends)
Just as in the real world, we’ve got the good and the bad guys.
How do you tell the difference?

3. profile
Tricky
34.7%
insights (“see
who viewed your
16,2%
profile/ who social game
app deleted you”,
“my profile
stalker”, etc.)
bonuses
(FarmVille,
CityVille, etc.)
shocking
images ( “this
baits
14,1%
girl killed
herself after…”,
“you will never
text again after
inexistent seeing this”,
Facebook etc.)
features ( “my
12,5%
first status”, “how
long have you been
logged in to versions
8,4%
facebook”, “who of famous
poked me the games (Super
5,7%
most”, a dislike Mario, The free gadgets
button, etc.) Sims, World of
Warcraft, etc.) (iPhones, iPads,
etc.)
4,3% malware
4,1% Other types of
less popular threats

4. This is definitely not cloud number 9, or, for
The that matter any other cloud you would want your
social account to be in or on. We’ve put together
Spam word a list of words that are most likely to be appear
in scam messages that flood social
cloud networks. This is a true dictionary of
human curiosity triggers.

5. The
Scam Phrase
cloud
is this you
what are you doing in this video
when/ after i saw this ….
I’ve just found out x about me. Check yours
how could he/she just found out that
how can someone do x?
i cannot believe

6. That’s and and
that’s that’s
Ma
Pa Auntie!
To say that scams are social animals would
not be that far-fetched. The same scam usually
spreads through several URLs that come in waves.
How can you tell it’s a wave? If several URLs
lead to applications that have almost identical
functionalities, spread through approximately the
same message, within a short period of time, then
that’s a wave.

7. The process whereby posted content is LIKED without the
user’s consent or knowledge. Simply put, after clicking a
link (to view the content behind it) you find that a message Likejacking
is automatically posted on your Wall, in your name, saying
that you LIKED that link.
“GRAPHIC VIDEO.. Japan “OMG! Look What happens
Tsunami Sends WHALE when FATHER catches
SMashing Into A Building” DAUGHTER on her WEBCAM”
Your friend you are redirected behind the video
you click
apparently liked to what seems to there’s a hidden
the link
a link to a video be a video like button
an automatic post on your wall indicates you unwillingly endorse that
that you liked that link, although you link and your friends get into
didn’t actually click any like button the loop after clicking it

8. A case Top
study Busiest Scam 5
Clicking Countries*
See who viewed your profile. *sample is the BitDefender
Safego user base
*only scams distributed
According to Bitdefender Safego data, this scam
spread through approximately 286 unique URLs 1. USA through goo.gl shortened
links
per wave, on the average.
Variations in the message used in the propagation of
the scam: view/viewers, peek, stalk/stalker,
2. India
see who has viewed/who stalks you,
who was your top stalker, etc.
These URLs led to 14 unique Facebook applications
applications,
3. UK
on the average. (apps.facebook.com/app_uniq).
Based on the data provided by url shortening
services that offer statistics on shortened links,
4. Canada
clicks
these URLs gathered 1,411,743 clicks. The
distribution spike per URL is of 34 hours
hours.
5. Australia

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