Social media platforms offer convenience and comfort to digital users for sharing of information and have enabled people to come together online on a global scale.  The extensive, unrestricted and unregulated use of these platforms, coupled with easy availability and access to user’s personal data, pose cyber security threats.

There are many scammers on these social media platforms, who attempt to defraud users through various means or channels.  Mentioned below are few of the ways that the culprits usually to opt to target users and victimize them.