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It starts so innocently; "Hey, did you know that your profile pic has been posted on this website www.********.com"

Normally someone that you know very well in your friends list suspiciously posts this message on your wall from their account. Naturally you then go ahead both out of interest and gullibility to check out what this website has to say. You then get to the website and it asks you to login using your facebook details or it downloads phishing software onto your PC. This then Hi-jacks your username and password for your Facebook account and then your account becomes the next catalyst for this perpetual phishing scam which has now affected millions of people globally.

Now there is a simple solution of course. Simply change your own password.

But the vast amounts of damage this virus can cause is unimaginable. Within minutes it posts hundreds of wall posts similar to the one you recieved onto the walls of all your friends. They then go to this website as well and the cycle continues.

The website they direct you to always changes. And we should list them here, but considering that you guys might actually by mistake goto them I think it might not be appropriate.

So I ask myself why does Facebook owners not simly trace who the owners of these websites are by seeing who the domains are registered to? Why do we have to suffer so much?

Any one else experience this? Let us know your story.
 
Seen them all over my friend's walls, but not stupid enough to go to the sites
 
I had the same thing, but the message was more like: "Hey, sorry to disturb but someone wrote something very offensive about you in the blog here http://some-site". It wasn't a wall post, it came up as one of those messages that you can send directly to one of your friends who are online.

It's some or other URL that doesn't look too dodgy, however when you go the site it loads a bit and then redirects to http://www.login.facexbook.c0m (link changed so that no-one goes there! If you want to check it out, replace the zero in the "c0m" with an o ;)) - an exact duplicate of the Facebook homepage, but notice the X!!! Luckily I have this add on (Flagfox) that tells you where in the world the site is hosted, this site is in China!!! So I didn't login, but I let the person know.

Turns out they had got the same thing, gone to the site, logged in and thats how the "hacker" got hold of thier details and used it to run there personalized scheme...
 
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This is not even new anymore. It's happened on countless websites with profiles and login abilities.
 
I saw a few of those messages on a friend's wall the other day. I almost clicked on one of the sites in a moment of dullness. Good thing I read this post just now. :eek:
 
I got that message, went to the site and realised it was a scam so I logged off my facebook profile (just in case) and then exited firefox, I don't see how people can fall for this kind of thing :rolleyes:
 
I've seen about 10 of my mates actually fall for this - they've become the "robots". It's amazing that no person has randomly posted on my wall yet (even tho I'd know that it was a virus). And it does particularly bad damage to those who have 600 "friends."
 
I have had this happen to my friends twice...

I was wondering why my friends had posted walls messages about inadequate size downstairs...
 
I spot this one a mile away the other day... This Afrikaans friend of mine posted this all over the place, excl mine for some reason. Immediately knew this was some kind of account-takeover/trojan on her PC as this wall post was not in line with her style of posting at all (All Afrikaans vs this one English post). The best of it all is, facebook can block this very easy. They already block the posting of certain URLs, so they just need to add a few to the list. Then keep the list updated by checking out any links posted eg. more than 300 times. Easy.
 
S1ght said:
I got that message, went to the site and realised it was a scam so I logged off my facebook profile (just in case) and then exited firefox, I don't see how people can fall for this kind of thing :rolleyes:
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People usually trusts their friends ;)
 
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two of the sites i've seen queensphere.com and sourceize.com

last night two friends that were on facebook have gotten viruses and cant log into windows! :eek:
 
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