Facebook hack/spam actually hurts families
No, really, that's true. In another NOWHERE ON THE WEB story that aired on CTV News today, a family in Nova Scotia is disgusted when a hacker/spammer made a spam wall post on a dead loved one's Facebook page.
If you used Facebook, you know your account has been compromised when you are making wall posts that you never made such as stuff about colon cleansers. This is exactly what happened.
The specific example for this story is here: http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/facebook-colon-cleansing-spam-via-mobile-web/
In detail, the family in Nova Scotia had someone close to them lose a fight against something lethal in January. The family expected only wall post comments from friends in show of sympathy for her passing. Then, on October 3rd, they saw she made a new wall post. The family at first is stunned on how she could post a new wall post after being deceased, but then realizes it's hacker spam. At current, the comments below this post show disgust on how a deceased person's account can be taken advantage of to be spammed on. The family is also disgusted and expressed that in the news story I saw that came from one of the CTV Nova Scotia affiliates. (They have no website, hence, the story is NOT on the net)
This shows how phishing and hacking/spamming is never caring of if a account belongs to a dead person or not. The ramifications truly are more severe when the spam is applied to a dead person, since serious emotional consequences can be made.
Update: The story just re-aired on CTV National News and I've located a article on the net about this just by Googling the person in question's name: http://www.trurodaily.com/index.cfm?sid=293716&sc=68
Guess it isn't nowhere on the net.
If you used Facebook, you know your account has been compromised when you are making wall posts that you never made such as stuff about colon cleansers. This is exactly what happened.
The specific example for this story is here: http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/facebook-colon-cleansing-spam-via-mobile-web/
In detail, the family in Nova Scotia had someone close to them lose a fight against something lethal in January. The family expected only wall post comments from friends in show of sympathy for her passing. Then, on October 3rd, they saw she made a new wall post. The family at first is stunned on how she could post a new wall post after being deceased, but then realizes it's hacker spam. At current, the comments below this post show disgust on how a deceased person's account can be taken advantage of to be spammed on. The family is also disgusted and expressed that in the news story I saw that came from one of the CTV Nova Scotia affiliates. (They have no website, hence, the story is NOT on the net)
This shows how phishing and hacking/spamming is never caring of if a account belongs to a dead person or not. The ramifications truly are more severe when the spam is applied to a dead person, since serious emotional consequences can be made.
Update: The story just re-aired on CTV National News and I've located a article on the net about this just by Googling the person in question's name: http://www.trurodaily.com/index.cfm?sid=293716&sc=68
Guess it isn't nowhere on the net.
posted by Jack Zhang at 10/10/2009 07:40:00 PM
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