If you get a Facebook message from me or anyone saying that I liked “Girls Are Unable to Stare at This for 10 Seconds, but Guys Can…,” it’s some kind of scam. Don’t follow it.
I’d send a warning to all my FB friends, but my FB pages doesn’t seem to be working properly (e.g., I don’t seem to have a way to update my status, and I can’t type a list name into a message).
Have you confirmed that the problem is not on the client (browser) side? Have you tried to access Facebook from a different machine or mobile device?
There’s a good chance that it is. I haven’t tried that yet. But I did figure out how to update my status. It just didn’t say “Update status.” You can tell I don’t actually use FB much…
What makes me nuts is that I create a list, and then when I try to send a message to it, it doesn’t seem to exist.
Instalanche!
Lets hope the next one is for better cause,
Well,geez,Rand….now ya got my curiosity aroused…now I’m going to be wondering all night just exactly what it is that guys can stare at for 10 seconds that girls can’t…that could drive a man to drink
change your fb password immediately. i got snagged like this with a different virus/phishing scam/whatever. you probably want to change the passwords of every email addy associated with your fb acct, too.
FB is a dangerous place, security-wise. I know a number of people who have gotten hijacked by it, and have had porn postings and e-mails sent from their accounts to everyone in their mailing lists. The only links I ever follow on FB are those posted to news stories or YouTube videos by people I know and trust. Anything else from anyone, even those I know and trust, I don’t click.
The password change advice is good, by the way.
Facebook is a bad idea. Well, it’s a good idea if you’re making money from it by being a stockholder, but for everybody else it’s a really bad waste of time.
Plus, it can cost you time, money, and a lot of hassle. So I’ve heard.
I was on it for about 3 days. It’s a crock.
Facebook is a useful tool if you keep access locked down to friends and are selective on who you let in. Convenient way to get a group of friends together for happy hour drinks on short notice, for example.
another one that’s going around are fb chats with links to spammy things. You expect it with messages but not the chats.
I was “sent” several of these “Girls Are Unable etc.” emails — supposedly from trusted FB friends. Looking at the link, it starts with
http://www.facebook.com/n/?pages%2FGirls-Are-Unable-
which is innocent enough, and there’s no redirected URL. I don’t think that by pasting a link which starts with http://www.facebook.com/ will result in being phished. But there may have been a fraudulent URL link in the original email that the email server is stripped out. So whether it is dangerous may depend on whether you click a “live” but hidden link, or cut and paste text you see.
Please correct me if I am mistaken, as I would like to know what is going on with this.
@Eric Scheie: It could be that the page could in fact be at Facebook but embed malware from someplace else like a PDF rigged with JavaScript.