Pinterest aims to “connect everyone in the world through the ‘things’ they find interesting.” The newly added networking site is picking up and gaining popularity tremendously.

However, with this success, scammers have already taken advantage of the popularity of the site to spread scam messages and bogus links in order to trick users by asking them to enter their personal information or financial details.

Don’t get excited if you find a Page on Facebook that states – You stand a chance to win a “Free iPad 3.” They’re all fake offers and there is no Apple iPad’s given away. In fact, Apple has not announced the iPad 3, and users who are not aware of this fact, generally click on such messages. Such users should avoid clicking these messages and stop them from spreading on Facebook.

Yet another scam related to Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez has been found spreading on the social networking site, Facebook. The new scam titled – “Omg. There was a hidden camera in Selena & Justin’s bedroom” is spreading across the social network and has already attracted thousands of users to click on the scam link.

Although methods like SPF and DKIM have been used in email phishing protection already, they have their limitations. Finally, all tech giants, namely Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, PayPal, Facebook and LinkedIn are going after spammers. They have decided to verify if the email sender is indeed the actual sender.

Reports indicate that a new scam on Facebook has been spreading like wildfire. The scam titled – “Eat at McDonalds for FREE! (limited time only)” has been circulating across the social network with the following message – “McDonalds is currently giving away free meal vouchers to all Facebook users!”

According to a recent report from Internet security company Kaspersky Labs, India has become the top source of spam emails for the third quarter of 2011.

A new message spreading on Facebook claims to giveaway a free Walgreens gift card just for “sharing” the message with your friends. Well, don’t get too excited about this because it is a scam. The scam has the title – “Get 1 F.R.E.E. Walgreens Gift Card! (limited time only)” and with the description that reads – “Walgreens is currently giving away 1 gift card to 10,000 lucky Facebook users!”

A virus scam is reported to be spreading on the social networking giant, Facebook. The scam message titled – “Wow!! do you remember this photo?” has a link attached to it, which leads users’ to a bogus webpage, and automatically downloads a malware program on the user’s computer.

A new scam on Facebook has been reportedly spreading on the users’ Wall. The scam titled – “One Free Amazon.com Gift Card (limited time only)” has a messages that reads – “Amazon is currently giving away gift cards to all Facebook users. Click here to get one!”

A new message spreading on Facebook claims to giveaway $1000 Costco gift cards just for “sharing” the message with your friends on the social networking giant. Well, don’t get too excited about this because it is a scam. The scam has the title – “Get Costco Gift Card for FREE! (limited time only)” and has a description that reads – “Costco is currently giving away $1000.00 gift cards to all Facebook users!!”

If you are one of those users on Facebook who have downloaded the ChatSend application, you may notice that the application has been acting shady of late. The application has been linked to spammy Facebook message and is enticing Facebook users into installing the application that inaptly advertises itself.

A new Facebook scam is rapidly spreading on the social networking site with the message “Girl-Killed-Herself-on-Halloween-After-Dad-Posted-This-on-Her-Wall [link]” enticing users to click, share and like the message in order to watch the video.

A new scam is underway on Facebook with the title – “Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez New Kissing Video Leaked !!! [link]“, tricking users to click on the scam link, which claims to show a video of Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez kissing each other. This is a fake video link. Do not click on it.

A new scam is underway on Facebook with the title – “Take the Free $1,000 Walmart Gift Card Survey! [link]“, tricking users to click on the link and take an online survey in order to receive a free gift card. The scam also asks users to share the message with their friends in order to qualify for the prize, and that’s how the scam is being spread on the social network.

A new scam is reportedly spreading like wildfire on Facebook with the message “FREE £170 Worth of Tesco Vouchers [link]“, tricking users to click on the link and spread the same scam across the social network by sharing it with friends.