This has been a busy week for Facebook scams. Facebook’s “Share” feature will create a clickjacking that scams $ 5 a week off of cell phone accounts. Seems like that Facebook has let the clickjacking scam and dislike scam emerge together. These scams make an effort to use, much like the likejacking scam of last May, buttons that aren’t really there. {Facebook users can protect themselves against the growing list of scams by learning how to acknowledge typical red flags|Typical red flags to notice and acknowledge are how Facebook users can stay away from these scams|These scams can effortlessly be avoided if you know which red flags to look for.
How Facebook clickjacking works
Friends are told to click on the posts, posted to their profile, with the Facebook clickjacking scam. PC World explains:
A user clicks a link to a Facebook page for “10 Funny T-Shirt Fails” for example. Once on the page, a message says Facebook’s new three-step human verification process is required to see the content. On step two, users are asked to click the “Next” button. The Next button is a dummy. Hidden underneath is a real Share button. When users click Next to get to the final step, they actually post that page to their profile wall. Lured to step three, users are asked for personal information to enter a contest. Among other things, the survey asks for a cell phone number. Down in the survey’s fine print it says providing the data tacks an extra $ 5 per week onto the users cell phone bill for a service called “The Awesome Test.”
Facebook with an additional scam- the dislike button scam
The Facebook dislike button scam emerged because of Facebook user demand. Facebook doesn’t yet have a “Dislike” button. Walletpop reports that the scam involves a bogus “Dislike” button intended to install malicious spyware for identity theft. The message “Get the official DISLIKE button now,” is given with a link for the bogus button. The link leads to a bogus “install” page. Users would automatically get a dislike button if it were real. To install, the scam prompts users to allow the application to run. The Facebook clickjacking scam has a survey filled out like the dislike button scam does at this point.
Check for Facebook scams
Facebook decided any fan page that had the clickjacking scam somehow a part of it would be removed. Call your cell phone company if you did the survey. Scam patterns are easy to acknowledge for Facebook users, says Reuters. Be quite skeptical when doing this, and don’t be stupid about it. Everyone who’s doing something out of the ordinary with their status updates would be a good clue. Pay attention to time elapsed since the status update was written and the way it was delivered. Facebook won’t need apps like the “Official Dislike Button” for its own stuff. And scams will always give themselves away by sending users from Facebook to one more site.
PC World
pcworld.com/article/203546/facebook_warns_of_clickjacking_scam.html?tk=hp_new
Wallet Pop
walletpop.com/blog/2010/08/16/dislike-button-on-facebook-a-scam/
Reuters
reuters.com/article/idUS162937196620100817
