Have you ever heard of like farming? This is when you like a
person’s post on a particular subject. The subject could range from fighting
cancer or trying to cure huger. They may also post a picture on a social page the
will tug at your heart strings so it gets as many likes possible. So what
happens is they go through the many like on the post. They scan the likes check
your profile see if they can get your information if not they send you an offer
or a form for you to fill out in an attempt to get your personal information or
send you malicious software.
So an example might be a picture will appear on your feed
for all different types of reason such as please give me 1000 likes so I can
beat cancer or give me a certain amount of likes for a giveaway. The post will
have a picture of the giveaway or a picture of an individual who appears to be
sick. What is very disturbing about the pictures is in most cases the pictures were
stolen off Facebook without the person permission. Some examples of the giveaway
would be a picture of an I phone the Facebook post might say to be part of the giveaway
you have to like, share or comment to get the I phone. Once you have like shared or comment then they
will either try to advertise something directly to you via face book about the
picture you liked, shared or commented on or they will send you some an offer
asking you to enter your personal information about the picture and finally
they will just send you a virus. So be careful on what you like, share or
comment on in Facebook.
So how do you avoid the scam? First you should always check
your Facebook likes often so you are aware of your activity on Facebook. You
can do this by going to your settings there will be an option called activity
log select it to see your activity. Before you like any posting on Facebook make
sure you are aware of the source or who generated the post. Think about it for
a minute is clicking like for something on Facebook really going to make
difference in any real worthy cause?
I hope this post was helpful and please leave a comment
Mark Carvajal
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