Latest Facebook Scam – Do Not Allow Access

With a worldwide 600 million users, every scammer has his or her eyes on Facebook.  Some no-good-niks will be direct and hack your Facebook account while others show more credibility.  The latest Facebook scam has taken the latter form in the latest rouse called ‘Who’s your Stalker?’

How’s the latest Facebook Scam Work?

This latest Facebook scam starts with an invitation on your Facebook page to ‘See who your stalkers are”.  Since this type of application is similar to other apps you’d find on other social networking sites, like LinkedIn, you accept the invitation.  Once accepted, the application asks you for permission (just as other Facebook apps would) to access your personal information and addresses.  Then, the program will send each of my friends a copy of the bogus message.

Of course it’s not a Facebook tool, or a legitimate application. It’s a fast-flux survey scam, a relative of the same genre appearing on The Social Network for some time, though with a new twist pointed out by Symantec. Using similar fast-flux techniques to botnets — which harness the power of thousands of computers to attack, for example, banks and the like — the link to the scam site is different each time. The user goes to a “redirector site” that uses a program to select randomly from a list of other sites actively running the scam. That makes it very hard to track and shut down, therefore giving the con a potentially endlessly recursive life.  http://www.walletpop.com/2011/03/10/whos-your-stalker-facebook-scam-makes-a-new-appearance/

The good news is that if you do happen to fall for this latest Facebook scam, you can remove the application easily.  All you have to do is go into Privacy Settings, and remove the application to get rid of the latest Facebook scam.