Well, well, well… look what I just dug up during my round of Facebook. A new rash of spam links came up on my news feed today. To dissect this, I opened up the link in an InPrivate (IE) / Private Browsing (Firefox) / Incognito (Google Chrome) window. It starts off with something you see below in Figure 1:
Figure 1: Almost there…
My Facebook was not affected because I was not logged in, but Facebook will prompt for a log in. After a bit of clicking around, one is likely to see a “security check” requiring them to take a survey (read: Sign up for spam offers), as shown below in Figure 2:
Figure 2: Fake “security check.” Most “are you human?” checks are done with a Captcha.
So, what can we learn from this? Let’s look at Figure 3 below:
Figure 3
In essence, only pages residing on facebook.com should be liked. If someone “likes” a link that takes you outside Facebook, it is SPAM! Do your part in keeping Facebook cool! Report these spam links by clicking “Hide” on these links and “Report” them as “Spam!”
