Point:
- It is easy to scam young people on Facebook through ads and malware as well as young people on games thinking the expensive “coins” they buy are free
Result
- Young people are usually unaware of viruses in their computers slowing programs down
- Little children can cost their parents thousands o dollars through their misunderstanding of how Facebook games and money work
Resources to back it up
http://www.ibtimes.com/facebook-faces-class-action-after-kids-spend-parents-money-facebook-games-1844284
- Facebook has faced a charge of children making unauthorised purchases on their parents devices
- Facebook Inc was forced to face a class- action lawsuit in California that is trying to force the company to refund purchases made by children unauthorised to put purchases on their parents credit cards without permission
- The lawsuit began when one family claims that their child spent up to 1059 on a game called ninja saga
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/how-zynga-pampers-the-people-that-spend-thousands-of-dollars-on-its-facebook-games-2012-3?r=US&IR=T
- There are people who spend thousands of dollars on Facebook games like Farm Ville and city ville
- Its not hard for children to do this
Viruses
- people can easily send viruses through Facebook
http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2009/09/how-to-make-facebook-virus.html
- This website shows how easy it is to create a virus
https://www.facebook.com/notes/port-grand-pakistan-/how-do-i-get-rid-of-a-facebook-virus/347039501986645/
- Facebook viruses have been around for a while
- There are links around Facebook and some contain malicious software
- they are often harder to discern and young people can fall prey to Facebook viruses
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2333559/a-trojan-is-circulating-through-facebook-messenger
- It is easy for trojan to circulate through Facebook messenger
- It steals account data and credentials and security firm
- It spread through face books messenger service
- It found a victim, pretended to be their friend with the term lol accompanied by a file waiting to be downloaded
- It looked like an image file and once downloaded malwarebytes malware intellegence manager Adam Kujawa said in an email to the inquirer
- The Jar file executes, downloads malware and infects the system
- Lol is nothing more than a clever hook to make the user click the file
- It is also a popular term used among the youth of today
- Also used are "Omg is this you?" or "I can't believe someone posted this?" easy click baits
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