Social Media Scams

Scams on social media are being disguised as trends

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More and more, people are sharing facts about themselves on social media and posting photos of themselves to help encouraging the class of 20-20.

But is it doing more harm than caleb fox 55 saylor is live to explain what the trends are all about.

Caleb?

It may seem harmless and be done with good intentions, but the more you share about yourself on social medie helping e you hackers break into your life.?

What was your first job?

What was the make and model of your first car?

Share your senior photo and school name to help support the class of 2020 all of these may seem like ways to stay connected while covid-19 keeps us apart, but dustin flaugher, president of it company tricore says you need to be careful t can be very harmful, think , i don people take the time on facebook to realize the type of ie ormation that they giving out.

Questions sound familiar, they probe likely you asked to answer them anytime you have to reset your passwords for your bank account, email, social media, or one of the other dozen logins you have.

Marjorie stephens, president of the better business bureau here in nort ern indiana, says it not just your friends watching what youhese scammers and these hackers this is there 24/7 job and they really know how to to get into the other information.

Info, all the hacker needs to do is find what they want to hack and do an account recovery, meaning all they need is the info you already put on social media to answer security questions to access your acchey might have an account with and start going through an account recovery process, and low-and- behold, one of the account recovery questions may be what was the make and model of your first car.

To keep your internet security tight hange your security questions and settings.

Etting up different types o uit ep authentication giving people your information.

Additional fears in the world already, the hackers are definitely going to exacerbate that and use that to their advantage."

So just use some common sense while on the internet, change your passwords more often than you like share and don that personal info to help keep yourself safe.?reporting live ... caleb saylor ... fox 55 news.