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Scammers targeting Indian Facebook users to gain likes and followers

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Sharath Kumar
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BANGALORE, INDIA: India was ranked the #3 highest source of overall malicious activity globally as per Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report (Vol 19) and here is yet another activity observed by the intelligence team that complements the findings strongly.

Late last week, Symantec came across scammers from India who managed to fool fellow Indians in the name of Ethical Hacking. The scammers tricked the users by claiming to offer a tool that could hack Facebook in order to obtain passwords belonging to the users' friends with a disclaimer stating that it was for ‘education purposes' only. For the same, the users needed to copy paste the code on browser console window and wait 120 minutes before the hack will supposedly work.

Unknowingly during this time, users ended up hacking their own accounts for the scammers and exposed their friends in the process. In the background, the account was used to follow lists and users, and give likes to pages in order to inflate the followers and like counts defined by the scammers. Additionally, it also tagged all their friends in the comments to maximize the reach of the scam.

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