Google + falls victim to scammers
It may only be a few days old but Google’s new social networking venture has already fallen victim to scammers attempting to peddle pharmaceuticals to unwitting would be members.
Taking advantage of the hype surrounding the start up a hacking group known as partnerka have been issuing fake invites to join the service, designed to mimic the genuine article and apparently issued by an actual member.
In fact the invitation is fictitious and merely redirects the user to a website flogging Viagra.
George Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said: “The scam is quite amateur at this stage as the link doesn’t even take the user to a Google-looking site from which the hackers could then grab users’ personal details. It just takes you directly to the wrong site and most people won’t fall for it.”