To be more specific on this subject I should say 'Beware The Human Spam-bots' as not all scams that you see, or have been the victim of, on social networking platforms are robot software programs or spam-bots as we call them.
Some, many in fact, are real people using a remarkable number of methods to recruit you or use you, and others, for many different reasons. However for that to work they do need to find you on such networking sites first. With millions of people on all sorts of social media platforms, finding people to link up with, or for you or others to see them, is not that easy so they have more than a few tricks to help them do that. A perfect classic example is the religious post that says ‘Do you believe in Jesus?' It then goes on to say that if you do then say amen in the comments section below. With a religious photo added to the message how can any religious person resist? So they say Amen along with hundreds of others who will reply in the same way. They have now found you, and many others, the moment you do that. Upon taking a look at who posted such a message, on one occasion, I soon found out that it was a salesman recruiting people to buy his insurance schemes. Nothing more will happen at that stage but for sure you will end up having adverts on that subject posted on your profile or main news-feed. Is doing such a thing illegal? No. However not everything is just about advertising a product or service. These types of scams can also be to do with recruiting people for criminal based activities or for propaganda reasons, be it politics or whatever. These methods are also used by child grooming gangs and even used by those looking to recruit people to join their war efforts. Sadly no matter how hard these things are policed by social networking staff the battle is never ending. The only way you can protect yourself is to check the message, and the origin, before making a comment. For a related article click >HERE< Comments are closed.
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