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MyPageKeeper: Keep Your Facebook Account Clean From Scams & Phishing

TehseenBaweja — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:01:24 +0000

With close to 700 million users, Facebook is dream land for scammers and hackers. With a new scam/phishing attack coming to light every day, MyPageKeeper is one of the few tools that can help you keep your Facebook account clean. Once you install the MyPageKeeper app, it automatically scans your Facebook wall, feeds and applications for unauthorized items and notifies you.

The app was created by a couple of PhD students and regularly posts statistics on their Facebook wall as to what new spam is making its way on to people’s profiles. The app learns as it grows so the more people who install this app, the more scams it will recognize and build the ability to fight against.

Features:

Facebook app that helps you fight spam and malware.
Works for your wall, feeds as well as applications.
Completely automatic with no tinkering needed.
Similar tools: Reppler, Reclaimprivacy, Openbook, Zesty Facebook Privacy Checker, VerifiedPages and byTagg.

Download MyPageKeeper from Facebook [Via Techie-Buzz]

External Link & Phishing Highlighter [Greasemonkey]

Kaly — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:23:03 +0000

If you read blogs on a daily basis you know that it’s very common for articles to have several links in the article text (both internal and external). Since in most cases internal and external links are colored in a similar way it’s hard to distinguish between them.

External Link & Phishing Highlighter is a simple Greasemonkey script for Firefox users that offers a solution to that. It basically highlights all external links on a webpage with a helpful icon so you know when you’re about to leave a website and go to another source. The icons added to external links are favicons from those sites.

It is really easy to set up and use, if you already have Greasemonkey installed then simply go the script page and click on the Install button to get it working on your browser.

Get External Link & Phishing Highlighter @ www.userscripts.org/scripts/show/28901

Is-This-A-Scam: Identify Internet Scams and Hoaxes

Kaly — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:12:27 +0000

Next time you receive a home business proposition or some lottery prize email and unsure if it is a legit offer or a scam check it on Is-This-A-Scam. It’s a Custom Search Engine built by Jason Morrison from Google Search Quality team. The engine runs a quick search across 100 major anti-scam and anti-fraud sites including forums and government agency websites.

To use the website, simply paste email contents into provided field and hit “Search”. Is-This-A-Scam will search for the email contents on anti-frad websites and present its findings.

Features:

Spot internet scams and hoaxes.
Checks across 100 major anti-scam and anti-fraud sites.
Free, no registration needed.
Similar sites: Hoax-Slayer and SonicWALL. Also see 2 Sites to Verify Urban Legends & Email Scams.

Check out Is-This-A-Scam @ www.jasonmorrison.net/is-this-a-scam

Hoax-Slayer: Expose Scams & Hoaxes

azim — Sat, 16 May 2009 21:58:13 +0000

Hoax Slayer is website that aims to expose scams and common internet hoaxes including bogus warnings, email chain letters, phishing emails, charity giveaways, celebrity death news and other type of hoaxes which are hard to verify on the spot.

So whenever you receive an email and heard about something that you aren’t not sure about make sure to visit the website and see if it’s been reported by someone earlier. If it’s popular you’re likely to find it on that website, you may then view its hoax status (true/false) and read more details.

Features:

Verify popular Internet hoaxes and expose scams: email chain letters, fake charity runs, celebrity death news and others.
Search for scam emails or browse by categories.
Verify the hoax status (true/false) and read the detailed commentary

Check out Hoax Slayer @ www.hoax-slayer.com

SonicWALL: Learn How To Identify Phishing Emails

Kaly — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:58:56 +0000

Not sure how to identify phishing emails from the real ones? Check out SonicWALL’s Phishing and Spam IQ Quiz. It is an online test where you can check your ability of recognizing phishing emails and at the same time learn how to identify them.

The quiz will present you with 10 questions containing email screenshots. You would need to decide if the email is legit or phishing. When the quiz is complete, you get to see your score and also check the reason why is your answer correct or wrong.

Features:

Online phishing email test.
Shows how to identify phishing and spam emails.
Free and no sign up.

Check out SonicWALL @ www.sonicwall.com/phishing