<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bf45cb27-a00a-4bdd-923f-d3e3e0fc97bc/B2068325-2EE9-4A79-8ACD-09E479401B10/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/20/latest-facebook-scam-phishers-hit-up-friends-for-cash/" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/20/latest-facebook-scam-phishers-hit-up-friends-for-cash/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techcrunch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/20/latest-facebook-scam-phishers-hit-up-friends-for-cash/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.techcrunch.com/img/84F64B37-AA7B-4C9B-941E-85D482B22061" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/20/latest-facebook-scam-phishers-hit-up-friends-for-cash/"><P>One of the best things about Facebook is that you know who you’re dealing with. You’ve verified every friend connection and nearly everyone has a collection of personal photos proving they’re who they say they are. Now it looks like some scammers are using this trust to their advantage, hacking accounts and exploiting the wealth of personal information available to trick your friends into giving them cash. In the past Facebook has had its fair share of <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/07/elaborate-facebook-worm-virus-spreading/" snap_com_shot="[object Object]">spam</A> and <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/02/phishing-for-facebook/" snap_com_shot="[object Object]">phishers</A>, but now it looks like these scammers are getting smarter by engaging in a form of identify theft.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/20/latest-facebook-scam-phishers-hit-up-friends-for-cash/"> <P>There’s really nothing Facebook can do about this from a technical standpoint - social engineering is essentially impossible to prevent once an account has been compromised. But an awareness program that emphasizes constant vigilance would be a good step: users need to remember that just because their friend’s smiling face is sitting next to the chat window, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s them.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B2068325-2EE9-4A79-8ACD-09E479401B10/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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