While everyone anticipating that Apple will announce a new version of its iPad tablet computer in San Francisco on March 7th, Scammers have decided to take advantage .
Sophos security researcher come across a Facebook and Twitter Scam post that claims "Get free iPad 3". The interesting thing, iPad 3 doesn't exist yet.
"As Apple hasn't even announced the existence of an iPad 3, these posts and pages (some of which have existed for months) are clearly up to no good," says Researcher Graham Cluley.
"Chances are that we will see Apple announce an iPad 3 very soon. But don't be duped into believing there's an easy way to get one for free." He added.
Sophos security researcher come across a Facebook and Twitter Scam post that claims "Get free iPad 3". The interesting thing, iPad 3 doesn't exist yet.
"As Apple hasn't even announced the existence of an iPad 3, these posts and pages (some of which have existed for months) are clearly up to no good," says Researcher Graham Cluley.
"Chances are that we will see Apple announce an iPad 3 very soon. But don't be duped into believing there's an easy way to get one for free." He added.
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