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Latest Facebook Scam: See Your “Total Profile Views”

Discussion in 'Security Updates' started by starbuck, Jan 17, 2011.

  1. starbuck

    starbuck Rest In Peace Pete Administrator

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    Today alert reader Matthew drew out attention to this one. It’s yet one more Facebook application scam: “My total Facebook views are…”
    It's pretty good social engineeering. Who wouldn't want to know how many people have viewed their Facebook profile?

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    If you search for it on Openbook, it’s obvious that this is a hard-coded number in the message that is being spammed out. The choices are:

    3187
    4353
    5714
    6126
    8578
    9821

    And, of course it wants to spam itself out from your account:

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    It’s another affiliate scam to the same tired list. Obviously it’s from someone who is not a native speaker of English judging by the grammar.

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    There is more than one of these running.

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    In this one, we checked the source code and found a URL that showed you what was behind the “verification” screen. So, if you signed up for one of the services advertised and spent some money, this is what you would get:

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    Looking in the source code you can figure out how they arrived at the 384 figure: a little piece of JavaScript provides you with a random number less than 7,000.

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    Source:
    http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/latest-fb-scam-see-your-total-profile.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SunbeltBlog+%28GFI+Blog%29
     
    starbuck, Jan 17, 2011
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    To Be Honest this is nearly 12 months old, but what annoys me is when you see a scam on Facebook and you try to tell people about it, you seem to get ignored :( Still hopefully now its Officially a scam someone just might start listening
     
    Match, Jan 18, 2011
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  4. starbuck

    starbuck Rest In Peace Pete Administrator

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    Not sure about the '12 months old'.
    Warning post was made at GFI Labs Blog on Monday Jan 17th 2011.
    I know there are some very similar 'Profile View' scams on FB.... but some idiots on FB will always click them.
     
    starbuck, Jan 18, 2011
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