Results for 'facebook video scam'
“Hungry Bear Tears Woman to Pieces” Facebook Video Scam
February 18, 2014 - Here’s a Facebook scam / fake video currently in circulation. Warning: a generally terrible standard of English used throughout: “Shocking Video:...
Scam Lures Facebook Users with “Hot Video”, Drops Trojan
April 16, 2015 - In January, The Guardian published a piece on Facebook‘s noteworthy success with its user-generated videos along with their growing shareability and viewability within the...
“Huge Snake Eats Man Alive!” Video Scam Spreads on Facebook
June 18, 2014 - Users of Facebook may feel that familiar feeling dawning upon seeing a post, such as the one below, that is quite...
How scammers use your data to create personalized tricks that work
October 30, 2025 - Attackers don’t need to hack you to find you. They just piece together what’s already public.
Meta boosts scam protection on WhatsApp and Messenger
October 23, 2025 - This is part of its broader push to fight impersonation and fraud, after removing more than 21,000 fake customer-support pages from Facebook.
Scam Facebook groups send malicious Android malware to seniors
October 2, 2025 - Cybercriminals are targeting older Facebook users with fake community and travel groups that push malicious Android apps.
‘Car crash victim’ calls mother for help and $15K bail money. But it’s an AI voice scam
July 22, 2025 - A woman in Florida was tricked into giving thousands of dollars to a scammer after her daughter's voice was AI-cloned and used in a scam.
Corpse-eating selfies, and other ways to trick scammers (Lock and Code S06E13)
June 30, 2025 - This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Becky Holmes about how she tricks, angers, and jabs at romance scammers online.
Fake bank ads on Instagram scam victims out of money
June 18, 2025 - Several Instagram ads have been found impersonating banks, including the usage of deepfake videos to defraud consumers.
Fake AI video generator tools lure in Facebook and LinkedIn users to deliver malware
May 28, 2025 - Cybercriminals are using text-to-video-AI tools to lure victims to fake websites that deliver malware like infostealers and Trojans.
