A bizarre story from Charlotte, N.C. was broken last Friday. The sordid tale involves an unlikely trio of a 26-year-old Latino gang member and two 13-year-old school girls from Northridge Middle School. According to authorities, Jorge Feria-Leon is a member of the violent street gang known as “Sur 13″, and his street name is “Nightmare.”…

Scam Signature Message: Free iPad offers – usually messages are spread Wall to Wall from one Facebook user to another. The scam is using a few different URLs and also a Facebook app called: sponsoredpads. Scam Type: Survey Scam, Rogue Application Trending: January 2011 Why it’s a Scam: When you click on the http://www.freeipad4test.com link…

Signature Message(s): Email from Google with subject line “Thank you from Google!” & Facebook message with subject line, “You have got a new message on Facebook!“ Scam Type: Trojan – Malicious Code Trending: January 2011 Details of the Attacks: Graham Cluley, of Sophos, has issued a warning this morning about two email messages they have…

A research report from Open DNS was released today, and Facebook was named as the most blacklisted website – oddly enough it was named as the second most whitelisted site also. 14 percent of companies that blacklist (block) websites site Facebook as a primary on their list. MySpace came in at 10 percent and YouTube…

Top Stories relating Privacy & Safety we followed this past week are listed below: Facebook Agrees to Change Friend Finder in Response to German Privacy Complaint Why Using 2 or 3 Simple Words May Be the Best Password Protection of All The Press Association: Parents warned of Facebook scam Social Media and Law Enforcement: Who…

Scam Signature Message: Facebook has a new verified app to give you the old profile back Scam Type: Survey Scam Trending: January 2011 Why it’s a Scam: Once you click on the Wall Post link, you are taken to the following page and asked to install the “Old Profile Page” Facebook application. If you click…

Scam Signature Message: SHOCKING : He killed his girlfriend after he found a message in her inbox Scam Type: Survey Scam – Rogue Application Trending: January 2011 Why it’s a Scam: Once you click on the Wall Post link, you are taken to the following page: When you “Click here to read the story”, you…

Scam Signature Message: OMG!! I didnt believe you could see whos been looking at your profile but it actually works, I now know exactly who has been looking at my pictures Check it out here: @ Scam Type: Survey Scam – Rogue Application Trending: January 2011 Why it’s a Scam: Once you click on the…

Scam Signature Message: I am __% addicted to facebook. See how addicted you are with this quick scan! Scam Type: Survey Scam Trending: January 2011 Why it’s a Scam: Once you click on the Wall Post link, you are taken to the following page and asked to install the “clarantsn” Facebook application. If you click…

According to recent studies, a typical American spends two weeks a year in the bathroom and takes about thirty minutes to one hour in the bathroom each morning before going to work. If he lives to the ripe age of eighty, three years more than the expected life expectancy, he will have spent three whole…

Scam Signature Message: SHOCKING STATS revealed! 25 PERCENT People do THIS during Sex!!!! Scam Type: Like Jacking – Survey Scam – Rogue Application Trending: January 2011 Why it’s a Scam: Once you click on the Wall Post link, you are taken to the following page: When you click “ENTER”, you are taken to a Facebook…

A 15 year old was kidnapped from her own driveway while her mother was inside. She was kept in a dog cage for 40 days and was threatened that her captors would go after her family if she did not cooperate. She was advertised on craiglist.com and was turning in a hefty profit each night…