Mega Facebook scam?
December 28th, 2009
Looking at my news feed this morning on Facebook, I noticed that my sister-in-law had joined the “WE’RE AGAINST THE 4.99 A MONTH CHARGE FOR FACEBOOK FROM JUNE 30TH 2010” group. Surprised that I hadn’t heard anything about this new charge, I clicked through to find out what it was all about. The group has no content other than its title and a reference to an external URL (which I won’t be linking to).
The website it links to is the worst kind of hackneyed malware (*edit – see comments below). The background is a repeating image of some nasty porn, and Chrome informed me that the site was trying to upload 25 separate items to my hard drive. It ultimately crashed my browser.
Google yields no results for “Facebook 4.99” or “Facebook June 30th” other than this one instance. The group has 133,000 members. 133,000! Either I’m misunderstanding something, or over a hundred thousand people joined a social group without doing any investigation whatsoever. An amazing example of social hackery.
(Here’s a screenshot, since I’m sure Facebook will take it down soon enough.)
December 28, 2009, 12:30 pm
Anyone who’s had a “forward this email or Bill Gates says
Microsoft will start charging for MSN / hotmail ”
knows how this happens.
December 28, 2009, 12:55 pm
Apparently the destination URL is a 4chan dumping ground for pissing people off and I’m a total noob.
January 5, 2010, 7:03 pm
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May 21, 2010, 3:50 pm
It is understandable that money can make people disembarrass. But how to act if one does not have money? The one way only is to try to get the loans and just collateral loan.