You thought identity theft and credit card fraud were mad, just imagine this…

You log on to your Facebook account that has been professionally detailed with all the information you use to promote your business. Next thing you know, one of your friends messages you about a duplicate account that has been created to sabotage everything that you’ve worked so hard for. By simply copying a few of your pictures from your account, and documenting a few of your friend’s on your profile, a criminal may create a false account claiming to be you.

What?! “You mean to tell me criminals now can do me harm on a social media site?!

Correct.

Here is the clean and descriptive list of the dancers that can come from leaving your account vulnerable to criminals. Click here for the link:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/nine-major-ways-criminals-use-facebook.html?page=2

1.)    Hacking Accounts

2.)    Commandeering Accounts

3.)    Profile Cloning

4.)    Cross-Platform Profile cloning

5.)    Phishing

6.)    Fake Facebook

7.)    Affinity Fraud

8.)    Mining Unprotected Info

9.)    Spam

Adjusting your privacy settings can be an easy way to avoid all of this.

Think it won’t happen to you?

Facebook now has over 900 million users! ! ! !

Cyber criminals are included!

BE SAFE! Happy Posting!