Cybercrime on social networks can be broken down into three categories:

• the traditional broad-sweep scams, trying to lure you to click on something or visit pages that will push malware on to your computer
• searching for careless public exposure of personal data
• using social media as a platform to connect, exchange ideas and trade stolen information

There are many categories of cyber crimes on social media that we can talk about, but for the sake of simplicity, let’s look at the following ones:

• Broad-sweep scams, which mean luring users to click on something or visit pages that will push malware onto the user’s computer, are a traditional form of cybercrime.
• Digging out personal data that has been carelessly exposed by users.
• Fraudulently connect, exchange ideas and trade stolen information.