Facebook scam warning!

[brettbjaarn]

recently received two Facebook e-mail notifications that set my security spider-sense tingling. Nothing was obviously wrong with the e-mail messages, which said that my friend had tagged a photo of me and then commented on it. But something about a reference to an app named "Who stalks into your profile" just didn't feel right.

So I checked it out. I dug into the e-mail header to make sure that it was from Facebook--it was. A search for the app's name didn't turn up any warnings. The app's installation page didn't give me any obvious clues, either. Still, I let my paranoia have its day, and I sat on the app.

Sure enough, it was a scam, and an ingenious one. When anyone installed the supposed stalker app, it first created a photo montage of friends' images and then commented on that montage. Facebook duly sent out "your friend tagged a photo of you" messages, effectively advertising the scam app, which was created to generate illicit online ad revenue.

more.. link to news article

 

[goldencreationsinfo]

thanks 4 informing, looks like i cud've been one of those to fall 4 the trap

 

[rorz0r]

That's pretty much how all apps on facebook operate isn't it?
The new thing seems to be pages that make you "like" them before you actually see what's on them... (and if you do like them then spam your feed with links to all their other ones)