Beware two-faced friends on Facebook

Hackers are joining your friends on popular social networking sites in a new form of identity theft.
They typically trick you into downloading programs that record keystrokes and sit back and wait for you to key in passwords and email address.

Then they log on as you and wreak havoc on your social networking life and, possibly, your financial life. They also use video links, fake antivirus deals and other ruses to get your goat.

Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt told AARP that in five years, less than 1 percent of 200 million users had security issues. However, independent research, reveals fallout from the Great Recession includes all kinds of cyber crimes.