Our world in and out of the workaday world
This latest scam attempts to victimize hapless suckers who haven't realized two important things: 1)if it is too good to be true, then it probably is. and 2) there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Curiously enough, this ad pointing to the scam site came from facebook!
The bogus site comes on to you as a mother who had debt problems and suddenly turned her life around just by buying an internet marketing kit worth $3.88, namedropping google as its get rich quick legitimate vehicle.
That's right! Evildoers have found a way to insert malicious scripts into that favorite social networking
site Facebook! This virus also attacks other networking sites like Myspace.
Facebook members have been warned to be very careful with messages seemingly sent by friends. It was first spotted in the summer and to spread it relies on the friend opening the message and clicking on the link within.
This is because the Koobface worm, malware that attempts to infect your PC and turn it into a spam-producing 'bot', has stuck again.
Koobface sends out messages to all of the friends of a Facebook member inviting them to watch a video or something similar.
I don't know why my wife and her mom are soooo addicted to Packrat, the facebook application. The game works in such a way that you are presented with a few cards. You can then view your friends' deck of cards, these are your friends who've installed the packrat application. As a supplement to those having few or no friends with this application, there are resident computer "rats" you can steal cards from.
The objective is to steal cards from these rats and/or friends. Additional perks is to collect special cards or credits that pop up in friends' pages every now and then. Other "cool" features are you can merge cards to create special cards, the combinations for which are found in packratwiki. I don't know how one could come up with the combinations on their own without that website. Other features include being able to buy needed cards in a "markeplace".
In one of the Facebook (a social networking site much like Friendster) applications called Texas Hold’Em Poker, I once again saw the hand of our enterprising Pinoy brothers/sisters.
Each table may seat 9 participants, and onlookers who “Watch” over the table may freely comment in the player chat section below. Every now and then, I never fail to notice a message that randomly pops out, visible for all to see.
The message goes, [Stephanie Martin]: to all my fellow pinoys, we are selling poker points for only Php 1K for 1M, 1.5K for 2M etc. just email poker_king1225@yahoo.com for more details.
Digg emerged two years ago as an alternative where readers post links to stories from other Web sites that they think are newsworthy. The users hit a "digg" button if they like it or a "bury it" button if they don't like it. The most popular stories appear on the front page. Users are encouraged to comment on stories, and they can give comments a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down."
Usually, tech savvy geeks can edit their php in wordpress and insert these digg codes by themselves. However, some people prefer the easier way, via wordpress plugin. It's good that there is this plugin called sociable, with wordpress page at this link for download. Current Sociable Version 2.6.2 is last updated 3-31-2008, and is compatible with wordpress 2.2 to 2.5
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