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Top Facebook scams revealed by BitDefender (infographic)

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Security company BitDefender — which recently released the Safego app to protect your Facebook account — has put together an infographic illustrating information about the state of scams on the social networking site.

At an impressive 7,532 pixels tall, the graphic offers plenty of insight into the dark underbelly of Facebook. The company found profile insight apps — like those which promise to show you who’s viewing your page and who deleted you — to be the most widespread scam. BitDefender estimates that this particular type of scam has generated more than 1.4 million clickthroughs. Facebook’s popular social games are a common trap as well, but are in a distant second, with less than half the clickthroughs.

Somewhat surprisingly, shocking image and video posts came in at number three on the list. We’ve seen so many of this type of scam appear in our security feeds that we thought they’d be the most common.

Top Facebook scams revealed by BitDefender (infographic) originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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