If you see a message titled '10 Hottest Leaked Snapchats Ever', no doubt you'll be tempted to click on it immediately, especially if you're a hot blooded male. However, if this pops up on your Snapchat account, you need to avoid it at all costs.
Cyber-scammers have basically launched a spam campaign that claims to give Facebook users the chance to see 10 of the hottest women in the world pretty much naked. However, when guys then proceed to click on the link, it takes them to fraud websites, where the dodgy con-artists can then steal their identity and even raid their bank accounts.
"Fraudulent websites promoting Snapchat leaks and other ‘;viral' content could lead to identity fraud and financial losses," chief security strategist at Bitdefender, Alexandru Catalin Cosoi, said.
The tech firm have been studying the case since it was brought to their attention, Cosoi continued: "Victims are usually subscribed to money-making surveys and redirected to scams promising electronics or amazing diet pills. Bitdefender advises users to be suspicious of videos, Snapchats and pictures 'leaked' online, particularly on Facebook."
The security company also made sure to highlight the fact that scams are becoming more and more common, especially on Facebook, so to just watch their backs more often - not clicking on photos of girls with their boobs out, basically.
The latest Snapchat scam comes after tens of thousands of images from the social networking site were released online after they were stored by a third party website, back in October.
The incident, now labelled 'The Snappening', basically took the pics from ordinary teenagers and despite some immediately labelling it as a hoax at the time, various news outlets have since reported that it was definitely real. The photographs had been leaked online via viralpop.com and the file was downloaded thousands of times, before the website was finally deleted.
Although the pics were of actual people, a Reddit user, who claimed to have downloaded the leaked files, posted that it was actually "13GB of low resolution garbage." Surely this doesn't make it ok, though? Watch your backs, people.
