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Warning: There’s A New Scam On Facebook- Make Sure You Don’t Fall For It
Facebook users will have a lot to “dislike” if they fall for a scam making rounds that claims to help users get Facebook’s newest addition.
Within days of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook wants to let users click something other than “like,” users were receiving messages that read, “Get the newly introduced Facebook dislike button on your profile.”
Although the messages might have all the right graphics, nothing good happens from clicking on them, say security experts.
“This is one of the oldest phishing scams to exist,” said Mitch Neff, an Internet security expert.
“Whatever the little psychological mechanism it is, everyone wants to be the first one out of the gate with this, one of the early adopters, people have wanted it for a long time,” Neff said.
Sophos security researchers writing on Naked Security said that clicking on the links brought them to two different scam sites, “neither of which had anything to do with Facebook, or a Dislike button, and both of which wanted us to sign up by giving away personal information.”
HackRead warned that clicking on the scam might also install malware, such a viruses, worms and other intrusive software.
People who have clicked on one of these banners, links or pop up ads need to immediately log out of Facebook and any other active sessions on a user’s phone or other devices, Neff said. He then advised users to log back in and immediately change their passwords.
Zuckerberg has been careful not to call the new Facebook feature a “dislike” button, although it has been popularly christened as such. The goal of the button is to allow users to show empathy in circumstances when “like” just isn’t appropriate, such when a friend posts bad news, he said.
“Not every moment is a good moment,” he said, adding that creating an appropriate option for a push-button response is “surprisingly complicated.”
Facebook has said testing the new button should begin soon, before it is rolled out widely to all users.
h/t: Fox News
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/warning-theres-a-new-scam-on-facebook-make-sure-you-dont-fall-for-it/
