Actually it is a transcript, but still, some people go to great lengths to trick you for some money ... So be careful ...

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See a Facebook scam in action

This caught my interest today.

Rakesh Agrawal, the CEO of SnapStream, a Texan software company, received a message on Facebook, supposedly from one of his friends - Matt Finkelstein. "Matt" told Rakesh that he was stranded in London, after he had his money and air tickets stolen and needed $800 to get home.

Fortunately, as you'll see in the transcript Rakesh published on his blog, he was suspicious and guessed that his friend's account had been broken into by a hacker.

Asking personal questions that only Matt or a close friend would know helped Rakesh uncover the truth, although it's clear that the scammer was able to derive some information (for instance, his wife's name) from the profile.

7:20am Matt hi whats up? 7:20am Rakesh Hi Matt Everything OK? 7:21am Matt well,im really stuck here in london i had to visit a resort here in london and i got robbed at the hotel im staying 7:22am Rakesh ack... that's terrible. Sorry to hear it. 7:22am Matt yeah,thanks we just want some helo flying back home 7:23am Rakesh So why are you stuck there?' 7:23am Matt all my money to get a ticket back home got stolen 7:25am Rakesh I didn't understand this "we just want some helo flying back home" 7:25am Matt help* actually i got some money wired to me to catch a flight back home but we still need $800 more to complete our ticket fee and fly back home 7:26am Rakesh good Honestly, it sounds like someone's hacked your Facebook account and is using it to defraud your friends. 7:26am Matt i have the money in my checking acct,i cant just access it from here this really me Lauren is here with me and my kids 7:28am Rakesh your wife's name is on your profile page 7:28am Matt what about my kids name? 7:28am Rakesh in photos? how do we know each other? when did we meet? 7:29am Matt from school I do not know this guy from "school"... So when I responded and he figured out that I was on to him, he blocked me, etc. I tried emailing Matt at his e-mail address, but who knows if that address was his real address or not..

Rakesh was right to be suspicious, but how many other people would fall for this kind of confidence trick? Read more at nakedsecurity.sophos.com

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