Bryan Rutberg’s daughter noticed something weird about her father’s facebook. It had said he was in urgent need of help and emails were sent to his friends saying he had been robbed at gunpoint while traveling in the United Kingdom, and needed money to get home. But as he was reading he realized he didn’t write those things. He had been hacked. One person even sent $1,200 to a Western Union branch in London. Why would you even do that? If my friend was in trouble and needed money I wouldn’t send that much money. Just because of the risk you have of having it lost or stolen. The hacker locked his facebook account so police couldn’t get into his account and track the hacker. This meant he couldn’t change the dire status message. And he tried getting on his wife’s facebook so he could tell his friends that he was fine, but the hacker had de-friended his wife so it wouldn’t work. And he had no way of contacting his friends he had on facebook. I think that people should secure their passwords better. Like make one that is really strong and easy for you to remember and no one else can. Also don’t give out your password to anyone. And if you do, change it right away.He was a victim of a new, targeted version of a very old scam, the Nigerian or 419 ploy. Hackers are getting much more personal in their attacks, by using social networking sites and other databases to make their story lines much more believable. Keep your passwords to yourself!
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