I came across the following on facebook while doing my monthly catchup on who is who in the zoo. Is it bad design to allow users to inject their own content like this ? In this case is more a case of a litmus test of the awareness of social networking users , in terms of awareness to this.
Is it really this easy, to get people to give up the proverbial crown jewels?
I would assume the person in question either has savvy friends who have not fallen for the ploy, or has no friends ;)
*info redacted to protect the curious*
Interestingly enough, this months fortune magazine (or forbes - i cant quite recall) has a regular columnist whining about being caught in exactly such a scam. His creds were then used to send in facebook spam [with a sim. message) to his >1000 friends..
He complained about FaceBook’s lameness at not protecting him, and ended with their lameness at not warning their users of using the same creds they use on other sites like internet banking..
/mh
ps: for the redaction
a) the image is called domphishing - a casae insensitive search for dom on ur blog gives u a first hit winner
b) a fb search for rhodes - gives u b irwin as hit 1, and a dom as hit 2 (ooh, same pic)
c) if anyone in gauteng ever drove past a hair style like that, the image wld be burned in their mind forever and i submit it wld be more memorable than a name tag at a conf!