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Shields Up!: IQ tests and other Facebook scams

Everyone loves Facebook. It’s fun, it’s useful, and it can be downright addicting. Thanks to its ever increasing popularity it can also be dangerous. Hackers and scammers are well aware of the large audience on Facebook and do what they can to take advantage of it. Here are a few of the ways they do so. . .

Those fun online quizzes may be more than you bargained for

I’m a genius who is the reincarnation of the ever-breathy Marilyn Monroe. I understand men 100%, and I’m also the cartoon character Dory as well as the Disney Princess Mulan. No, I don’t have split personality disorder or any other kind of mental heath diagnosis (I think). Just the results of a bunch of those online quizzes. Yeah, you know what I mean. I also learned that these quizzes aren’t just about killing some time and a few chuckles. It all boils down to the money, right? Did you really think this was any exception?