Scam ‘Funeral Streaming’ Groups Thrive on Facebook (Krebs on Security)

Actualités, Sécurité
Scammers are flooding Facebook with groups that purport to offer video streaming of funeral services for the recently deceased. Friends and family who follow the links for the streaming services are then asked to cough up their credit card information. Recently, these scammers have branched out into offering fake streaming services for nearly any kind of event advertised on Facebook. Here’s a closer look at the size of this scheme, and some findings about who may be responsible. One of the many scam funeral group pages on Facebook. Clicking to view the “live stream” of the funeral takes one to a newly registered website that requests credit card information. KrebsOnSecurity recently heard from a reader named George who said a friend had just passed away, and he noticed that a…
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Scam ‘Funeral Streaming’ Groups Thrive on Facebook (Krebs on Security)

Actualités, Sécurité
Scammers are flooding Facebook with groups that purport to offer video streaming of funeral services for the recently deceased. Friends and family who follow the links for the streaming services are then asked to cough up their credit card information. Recently, these scammers have branched out into offering fake streaming services for nearly any kind of event advertised on Facebook. Here’s a closer look at the size of this scheme, and some findings about who may be responsible. One of the many scam funeral group pages on Facebook. Clicking to view the “live stream” of the funeral takes one to a newly registered website that requests credit card information. KrebsOnSecurity recently heard from a reader named George who said a friend had just passed away, and he noticed that a…
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