{"id":6840,"date":"2014-11-06T08:58:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6840"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:58:11","slug":"spotting-a-facebook-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6840","title":{"rendered":"Spotting a Facebook Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-static.zdnet.com\/i\/r\/story\/70\/00\/035440\/users-cant-tell-facebook-from-a-scam-610x407.jpg?hash=BQN2LGWvAJ&#038;upscale=1\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the past two years, it&#8217;s estimated 850,000 scams have perpetuated on Facebook. That&#8217;s a lot. The problem is that most Facebook users can&#8217;t tell what&#8217;s a scam and what&#8217;s not.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBlame Facebook&#8217;s interface and users familiarity with it. Because things are easy to learn and do on Facebook, the scammers can horn right in.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not been entangled by any Facebook scams, mostly because I&#8217;m \u00fcber aware of clickbait.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/users-cant-tell-facebook-from-a-scam-7000035440\/\" target=\"_blank\">ZDNet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZDNet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6842,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions\/6842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}