Facebook to start Charging for usage

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**Facebook is going to start charging Users**

Facebook user should be on the lookout for a “re-posted” status message that claims Facebook will be charging it’s users after midnight tonight. (Example Shown Next to Facebook’s Own Log In Screen in the attached picture.) -Despite what is stated in the widely circulated Facebook messages, Facebook is NOT going to charge users for the services. The message is a OLD HOAX and should not be re-shared or re-posted.

Please see the attached resource links for the facts..

**Resources**
Hoax: Facebook to Start Charging This Summer
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/facebook-icon-blue-hoax.shtml

Snopes.com – Facebook Charges
http://www.snopes.com/computer/facebook/fbcharge.asp

Facebook Charging In 2011: Chain Letter Spreads False Rumor
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/24/facebook-charging-in-2011-chain-letter_n_979061.html#s281412&title=Clickjacking

FACEBOOK WILL START CHARGING. DUE TO THE PROFILE CHANGES. (hoax)
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-will-start-charging-due-to-the-profile-changes-hoax/4009

No, Facebook Will Not Make You Pay to Get the New Profiles
http://mashable.com/2011/09/25/facebook-changes-are-free/

And if all this doesn’t prove anything to you, Please log out.. Permanently..LOL

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Re-posted Hoax Alert – Baby Cancer – Heart Transplant – Faces Blurred

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Facebook user should be on the lookout for a “re-posted” PHOTOS that claim people should share them to help children obtain free heart transplants or other needed surgeries. Despite what is stated in the widely circulated Facebook messages, (Examples Attached), the photos should not be re-shared or re-posted.

One, Facebook is not going to pay anything to anyone simply because they shared a photo and two, these message are nothing more than new variations of old money for forwarding or re-posting hoaxes. These types of messages have been circulated for years, first via email and more lately via social media posts. You should avoid them..

**UPDATE: All “Event Invites” that use any of the sick child photos shown in the examples are to be ignored and reported.. You can report scam events by simply clicking the “Report” link on the lower left side of the event page. Select “Scam Or Spam” in the option box that opens, then click submit. Do not click to “Attend” the events..

*Resources*
A Special Appeal to Facebook Users – Unauthorized Use of Baby Zoe Chambers Photograph
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/zoe-chambers-story.shtml

Hoax-Slayer– Hoax – Facebook Will Pay Three Cents Per Share to Help Baby With Facial Cancer
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/child-three-cents-per-share-cancer.shtml

Sophos – Baby cancer and heart transplant hoaxes on Facebook
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/10/baby-cancer-and-heart-transplant-hoaxes-on-facebook/

Snopes.com
100 Facebook Shares Appeal
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/100shares.asp

Heart transplant child Zoe Chambers has died (14 Jul 2008)
So, the child in picture number 2 received heart surgery 4 years ago.. She passed after that surgery.. I Sure don’t think her mother would want you spreading hoaxes around with her picture..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2376494/Heart-transplant-child-Zoe-Chambers-has-died.html

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HOAX ALERT – Bon Jovi is not dead

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A fast spreading hoax is currently circulating on Facebook. The Hoax claims that International Rock Star Jon Bon Jovi is dead at 49. The claim is confirmed as FALSE. If you happen to see the hoax show up in your news feed, it would be wise NOT to spread it.

Resources:

[Hoax Alert] International Rockstar Legend Jon Bon Jovi dead at 49
http://facecrooks.com/Scam-Watch/hoax-alert-international-rockstar-legend-jon-bon-jovi-dead-at-49.html

Jon Bon Jovi Victim of Death Hoax
http://www.gossipcop.com/jon-bon-jovi-dead-died-december-2011-rip-death-rumor-hoax/

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Hoax Status Message, Call you friend an Idiot and let them know its a Hoax

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>Warn Your Friends, Copy and Paste This Status!

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So there have been reports coming in that there is a “New” virus associated with the Barack Obama Clinton Scandal!

Your friends have been posting a message as follows…

Virus spreading like wildfire on Fb and My Space! It is a trojan worm called koobface. It will steal your info,invade your system and shut it down! DO NOT open the link Barack Obama Clinton Scandal! If Smart Girl 15 requests you as a friend, don’t accept it; it is a virus. If somebody on your ………list adds …her, you get the virus too! Please copy and paste to you wall.

Now Koobface IS a real virus, but it is an out dated virus which any up to date antivirus program should pick up. (You are running an AV program right?)

This is a typical copy, paste warning. Most of the time these things are harmless.

The thing here to remember is that adding someone to your friends list won’t invite a virus, but that if a user is sharing links to virus infected sites… This is another story.

A lot of the times these are spread by an ex who is seeking revenge to get people to un-friend a user. In this case Smart Girl 15.

How can you tell if these things are fake?

A simple check on google usually does the trick.

Snopes is also a great tool to verify the legitimacy of internet shared information.

I’ve also pointed out some false, out dated, or misleading information to users who share status updates like this by pointing out Snopes.

The disappointing ones are the Amber Alert messages, because the user thinks they are truly trying to help. But this leads to “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” scenario. Then any following real Amber Alerts are usually falling onto def ears. This has a more negative impact than a positive one when messages like this are spread.

On a closing note, please remember to do a quick followup on these types of things before blindingly doing the copy and paste thing.

Information is power, but false information is just another slap in the face.

I hope this was useful to you, and everyone esle you share it with.

Cheers

o0MeTaL0o

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>Hoax Alert: VIRUS on FB using your pictures

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VIRUS on FB using your pictures. It says you have been tagged in a picture, wants you to click on a link to see it, then hacks into your computer & all your accounts, including banking & other secure accounts. It destroys your computer. Once hacked into your computer, it sends …e-mails to your friends telling them they have been tagged in pictures & starts the process again PLEASE RE-POST 

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This alarmist message which warns of a dangerous virus that uses fake notifications of being tagged in a photo is both partly true and false, though mostly false.

It is true that past koobface virus threats have used the method of claiming a Facebook user was tagged in a photo in an attempt to fool that user into clicking a link that would then request them to install malicious software. The Fake Sims 3 Application scam and Photo Comment Application scam both claimed a facebook user had been tagged in a photo to dupe them into installing dangerous Facebook applications. However both those threats were quickly shut down by Facebook and we are unaware of any serious threat re-using this particular tactic again. Additionally the assertion that the virus `hacks your computer and all of your accounts` is pseudo jargon designed to scare the reader. None of the genuine threats using this tactic destroys the victims computer either and this overly alarmist message is too vague, misleading and outdated to be of any use.

Facebook users should be aware when clicking links, and never install Facebook applications or other downloadable attachments after clicking on Facebook links. If you click a link that states you have been tagged in a photo, then you should be directed to that photo. If anything else happens, leave the page and close your browser.

Source http://www.thatsnonsense.com/view.php?id=1002

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Hoax Alert: VIRUS on FB using your pictures

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VIRUS on FB using your pictures. It says you have been tagged in a picture, wants you to click on a link to see it, then hacks into your computer & all your accounts, including banking & other secure accounts. It destroys your computer. Once hacked into your computer, it sends …e-mails to your friends telling them they have been tagged in pictures & starts the process again PLEASE RE-POST 

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This alarmist message which warns of a dangerous virus that uses fake notifications of being tagged in a photo is both partly true and false, though mostly false.

It is true that past koobface virus threats have used the method of claiming a Facebook user was tagged in a photo in an attempt to fool that user into clicking a link that would then request them to install malicious software. The Fake Sims 3 Application scam and Photo Comment Application scam both claimed a facebook user had been tagged in a photo to dupe them into installing dangerous Facebook applications. However both those threats were quickly shut down by Facebook and we are unaware of any serious threat re-using this particular tactic again. Additionally the assertion that the virus `hacks your computer and all of your accounts` is pseudo jargon designed to scare the reader. None of the genuine threats using this tactic destroys the victims computer either and this overly alarmist message is too vague, misleading and outdated to be of any use.

Facebook users should be aware when clicking links, and never install Facebook applications or other downloadable attachments after clicking on Facebook links. If you click a link that states you have been tagged in a photo, then you should be directed to that photo. If anything else happens, leave the page and close your browser.

Source http://www.thatsnonsense.com/view.php?id=1002

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>From Scam Sniper – Facebook Hoax: "Cartoon Profile Pics pedophile hoax."

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Facebook Hoax: “Cartoon Profile Pics paedophile hoax.” 

http://scamsniper.blogspot.com/2010/12/facebook-hoax-facebook-cartoon-profile.html

 

The Hoax:

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IMPORTANT: the whole changing your profile picture to your favourite cartoon character thing was actually created by a group of paedophiles, because if children see pictures of cartoons they will add them, it was currently on the programme Internet frauds and will apparently be on tv some time tonight, put this as your status to warn people and change your profile pictures back

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CHANGEYOUR PROFILE PICCIES BACK!!!! – This cartoon thing has been set up by paedos using A registered charities name to entice kids. apparently on the 6th dec you will be kicked off fb if u have cartoon pics. The more folk that put up cartoon pics the harder it is for the police to catch its to be on tonights news about it! :@ PLEASE RE-POST

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——-Example Message 3——
A message from one of my F/Book friends: TO ALL THE PEOPLEWHO CHANGED THEIR PICTURES TO CARTOONS PICTURES FOR THE STATUS UPDATE, A GROUP OF PEDOPHILE S SET IT UP SO THAT CHILDREN WOULD ACCEPT FRIEND REQUESTS FASTER IF IT WAS A CARTOON PICTURE. THIS WAS ON AN INTERNET FRAUD PROGRAM AND THE (US) NEWS TONIGHT. COPY AND PASTE AS YOUR STATUS TO LET EVERYONE KNOW.

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Example Posted Hoax 1

Example Posted Hoax 2

Via ThatsNonSense.com: The above messages is a hoaxes and are baseless. They should not be posted as your status and are only designed to create panic and controversy over the facebook cartoon picture meme.

More info at the link below. Please share this with your friends..

Hoax/Scam Details – Facebook Profile Pics Being Changed to Cartoons

http://www.thatsnonsense.com/view.php?id=1124

Just as quickly as many people were to change their profile picture for the cause, many have turned to spread this false statement about how the whole thing got started. Note to self: Don’t do it cause the status said to, Do it cause you felt like doing it..

Posted by Scam Sniper at 4:29 PM

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