Let’s say you’ve built an iPhone app (and, hey, you may well have done); you’ll be wanting to get it to the top of the app charts as quickly as possible, right? Suddenly you get an email offering you just that for a one-off payment. You’re tempted. Welcome to the world of app scamming. Read more
It was inevitable really. With Google+ invites still thin on the ground, spammers have swooped in to lure unsuspecting social networking fans into surfing to a site selling Viagra.
Sophos flagged up the scam which is spreading via emails that closely mimic the Google+ invite but, in fact, send you to a site called the Canadian Family Pharmacy.
As Sophos notes, the scam is pretty amateur right now but more sophisticated attempts at swindling would be Google+ users are no doubt in the works. Have you been hit with a fake Google+ invite? Click the headline and hop into the comments to let us know.
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