Social networking sites have become new attractive target for spammers and scam letter posters says security company Softwin in its report. Recent Nigerian Scam spreads for example in LinkedIn social network.
In Nigerian scam 2.0 there's invitation phase before actual money begging phase. User is asked to join interesting sounding community. This is used to win user's trust. When this is achieved begins money begging.
By using social networking sites spammers and scammers can bypass many antispam filters because scams are sent only between networking site's user accounts.
LinkedIn's Director of Corporate Communications Kay Luo reminds LinkedIn's users that they should accept invitations only from people they know and trust.
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