If you have a Facebook personal page, you've received them. All those invites from Facebook Friends to try this game, or beat their score on that game. I just ignore them.
Scammers are looking for every angle to bilk us out of our money. In one case, scammers ran fake ads on Android versions of Angry Birds. The ads falsely claimed that the Android smartphone had been infected by viruses and, (lucky for you), the company featured in the ad could remove them from your phone.
You won't be surprised to know that they were not removing any viruses. If you clicked on the icon to have the viruses removed, you were falsely billed $10 per month for unrequested ringtone services. The charges were "crammed" onto your monthly cellphone bill. Even if you were careful not to activate the fake virus removal you were still not safe from the scam. If you inadvertently touched anywhere on the ad, you automatically activated the charges.
For those who were victims of this particular scam, financial restitution is on the way. Even so, how unsettling is it that some unauthorized company still has your passwords and private information in their possession? Refunding the stolen money is not good enough in my opinion. They should also pay penalties to each person scammed.
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