Gone phishing!

Scams tricking gullible users into handing over personal details for naughty piccies have moved over onto social networks.

92% of phishing scam recorded in January 2010 were on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Once scammers have grabbed personal credentials, surfers are redirected to sites scareware scams rather than smut.

Scareware scams more commonly rely on finding search engine results such as the death of an athlete. These results are altered so that surfers looking for videos of this tragedy are instead redirected to anti-virus scan scam portals, which warn of non-existent malware risks in a bid to try and scare the user into buying software which can often be loaded with malware and tojans.

Symantec's reported a high volume of Haiti Earthquake-related spam and phishing in January 2010, as unscrupulous fraudsters tried to lure people.

You have been warned!