Sunday, March 20, 2011

Friends don't let friends get hijacked by Facebook spammers


Facebook really needs to do something about all these facebook scams with the fake videos. If you click on them, you automatically "Like" it and it gets posted to your profile. The link takes you to a fake video website and tries to get you to fill out a bunch of surveys which would probably sign you up for more spam.

I would suggest you not click on any external video links in Facebook unless the URL is for youtube.com, ie not tiny.cc, bit.ly or anything else you don't recognize as a legit video website. For people that use the Google 

For Chrome browser users I suggest that if you come across something you're not sure of and you can't resist clicking, you can right click on the link and use "Open Link in Incognito Window". It prevents the spammer links from posting to your profile. Upon verifcation that it's not a real video, you should post a comment below your friend's link preventing others from spreading it.