Facebook SCAM ALERT – Rogue Application – What Sexy Superpower Can You Get In The future..
February 8, 2012 Leave a comment
Scam Message:
wow nice app… must try… What sexy superpower Can you get in future? Dont be shy!!!….Find out here ——–> ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ [Link]
Scam Type:
Novelty Entertainment Bait, Rogue Application, Survey Scam, Profile Information Theft
What Makes It A Scam:
If you fall for the ploy and click the link given in the scam message on Facebook, you will be tricked into giving a Rogue Facebook Application permission to post to your wall without your knowledge. While it’s doing that, it also takes some time to accesses quite a bit of your Facebook profile information.
The Application Accesses This Information From your Facebook Profile:
Your Basic information which includes: Name, Profile Picture, Gender, Networks, User ID, List of Friends, and any other information you’ve made public
They Application also access a few sets of Non-Basic information which includes: About Me, Birthday, Education History, Likes, Music, TV, Movies, Books and Quotes.
Here are screen-caps of the application installed and the profile data it accessed..
While the application is accessing and possibly storing all that information from your profile and re-posting the same or similar novelty bait message to your friends, behind your back, you are led to another Facebook page and told you must complete a survey or offer to pass into the “Hidden Content Area“. The fake surveys or offers net Scam Artists 1 to 3 dollars per survey completed. The process is a fraud. There is no hidden content. Please see the examples included below and please read the extended info included below the examples.
- Make sure your computer’s OS, Browsers and Anti-Virus software is up-to-date and keep them that way.
- Keep your passwords to yourself. (Never Give Them TO ANYONE, NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY.)
- Don’t Friend everybody on Facebook.
- If you are NOT going to use Facebook apps, turn the application platform off. If you ARE going to use Facebook apps, make sure you thoroughly review them before you install ANY of them.
- Don’t trust your friends on Facebook or any other website/social network. Don’t randomly click every link OR Facebook Application they throw your way and make sure you don’t go around facebook or the web clicking everything you see. You should be relatively sure of were a link is going to take you, before you click it..
I Fell For It – How Do I Clean Up The Mess:
How do I remove or delete an app from my account?
https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=170585223002660#How-do-I-remove-or-delete-an-app-from-my-account?
How do I remove a Wall post or story?
https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=203594616344678#How-do-I-remove-a-Wall-post-or-story?
The link below shows you how to Report Abuse On Facebook. It covers reporting a post as spam.
How to Report Abuse
https://www.facebook.com/help/reportlinks
~MBK