Just days after we covered a new Facebook Page scam that automatically invites your friends to a misleading Facebook Page, comes a new copycat. While your personal information isn’t at risk, the new exploit automatically sends Facebook Page invites to all your friends (without your permission) and tries to convince them to take a [...]
Back in January we wrote that Facebook will not begin charging for the site, however the rumor won’t disappear. Thanks to a group called “I’m quitting facebook when the start charging $50/per month on July 8, 2010″, hundreds of thousands of users are convinced that the company will begin charging for the services in [...]
If you’re on Facebook there’s a fairly good chance that at some point in the past few weeks one of your friends has invited you to an “iPad Research Program” or something similar which promises you a free iPad. The promotions, which have been primarily sent through Facebook Pages, are actually just more covers [...]
Want to instantly get millions of users to your Facebook application? All you need to do is tell them that the application they are installing will tell them who recently viewed their profile. That’s exactly what hundreds of new Facebook applications are promising and so far the usage among Facebook users has been [...]
One week ago we wrote about the rise of scam Facebook groups and as of today, these groups continue to proliferate. The groups encourage users to invite all of their friends in reward for an advanced feature on Facebook. Last week we wrote about one group which falsely claimed that you can change [...]
There is a rapidly growing trend on Facebook, in which scammers address the concerns of users on Facebook through groups that provide fake solutions in an attempt to build extremely large followings. Just last week I was sent the names of two or three groups which entice users to invite their friends in order [...]
As Facebook has grown in popularity, it has also become a primary target for hackers and spammers. An increasing number of Facebook users are having their accounts compromised. Each newly compromised account is then used by the hackers and scammers to propagate their scam further. You don’t need to be an idiot [...]
Over five months after we first started covering some of the aggressive advertisements on Facebook, a class action suit is being filed on behalf of the users who were victims of reverse mobile billing scams. This was an inevitable suit although this really appears to simply be a law firm looking to profit from [...]
There has been ongoing controversy surrounding scam ads on Zynga and other social games which make up a large percentage of the traffic on the Facebook Platform. While Facebook is going after the ads, most pundits only see what’s right in front of them, missing a much bigger ecosystem of scams which generate millions [...]
