Social media – the new playground for fraudsters. Part 2
As we have seen, social networking sites are particularly vulnerable to fraudsters because they are communities built on trust. The urge to post personal and often intimate details of your everyday social and working life makes these site rich pickings for identity theft. Fraudsters will often set up false identities on the larger social networking […]
Social media – the new playground for fraudsters
Earlier this year Javelin Strategy & Research issued new figures on identity fraud, and unsurprisingly the focus of the research was social media. Social, dating and business networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and LinkedIn, have rewritten the digital landscape as users create their own profile and share conversations, photos, videos, links and personal […]