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Over 10 Million People Duped on FACEBOOK by Spammers

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Spammers have attacked again and this time through the most famous social networking site. Yes we are talking about facebook. They have used facebook in a unique way by inviting people to fake events. This increases traffic to those pages thereby generating income. These people have targeted around 10 million facebook users.

Sophos an IT security firm is trying hard to remedy this but this tactics by the spammers has engulfed a large number of gullible users in their clutches. This crime is taking place even when you are reading this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The most famous of these events is “Who blocked you from his friend list “and it has already made a fool out of a whopping 165,000 people who have signed up for this. The most interesting fact is that almost 10.3 million people have visited this and are thinking of joining it or not. Basically this works in a way that clicking on some part of the add leads you to take a survey to unlock the people who have blocked you. Many people take the survey only to find out that it was nothing but since they have taken the survey they have already unwittingly helped the spammer’s cause. The worst thing is that if one provides their phone number then it can lead them to become a part of expensive premium rate service. In this scenario you should immediately contact your service provider and get the scheme cancel before it has leeched you too much.

The IT firm looking into this is also admitting that this is one biggest problem that they are facing in these times as it affects millions of users and they are trying to urge facebook to stop such illegitimate and nonsense events as it is very easy for spammers to generate income like this.

If you think that you have been duped by some event or some other bogus scheme like this then immediately cancel your reservation for the event and also let your friends know about it. Your basic aim should be to try and spread this news as far and wide as you could. In the future you should be suspicious of such events and confirm their authenticity before joining it.


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