TWO SCAM WARNINGS: 

 

For those that use craigslist and provide their email addresses as the way to get in touch with people (I do this so I won't get a lot of calls from people who aren't truly interested), it is common for crooks to send an email containing bogus interest in your item and a link.  If you go to the URL provided (using digg URLs is common since they look a little more legitimate), it will appear to be a craigslist page.  But, it is NOT. It is a page that asks you to provide your craigslist ID and password.  If you provide them, someone else will basically take over your craigslist account (in cybercriminal terms, they will "pwn" it).  What makes this particular scam look so real is that it provides a warning at the top of the page to look out for fraudsters providing bogus sites!

A popular scam on Facebook is asking those who use the site to join a group with a title such as, "I WILL NOT PAY TO USE FACEBOOK" with various dates attached. Many are joining this group only to find that their personal information, obtained from their profile, has been given (often sold for large amounts of money) to other businesses, and then they experience an increase in unsolicited spam messages, phone calls, postal mail, and, depending upon how much information is in their profile, various types of identity fraud. An example of this is an ad "Free Uggs for 38-year-old women! Click here!" when a user has her birthday and preferences in her profile. Avoid being drawn into such a ploy engineered by social engineering scam artists. Don't just join random groups - that involves sharing more information than if you just "like" a page.