DAMN TROJAN » Grifters http://www.damntrojan.com We make it go away Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:26:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 GRIFTERS PUNT ‘GET RICH QUICK’ SCAMS AT FACEBOOK USERS http://www.damntrojan.com/grifters-punt-%e2%80%98get-rich-quick%e2%80%99-scams-at-facebook-users http://www.damntrojan.com/grifters-punt-%e2%80%98get-rich-quick%e2%80%99-scams-at-facebook-users#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:00:08 +0000 The Register http://www.damntrojan.com/?p=2824 Social networking marks made an offer you can refuse

Grifters are using Facebook to lend credibility to an elaborate get rich quick scam designed to trick punters into handing over credit card details.

The ruse begins with an ad on Facebook touting an offer to “get paid for posting links – Google will pay you great money for doing this”. Users who respond to the come-on by clicking on a link are taken to a page where someone who’s supposedly become rich through the scheme relates his story.

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