Facebook, despite being one of the biggest social networking site, has failed to squeeze out the spam spreading in its Social Network. These click-jack schemes have gone so viral that its becoming more unstoppable even by Facebook. Some of the latest messages that are spreading on Facebook as Wall Posts are:
1. OMG name you should untag yourself in this vid
2. OMG name why are you in this vid
3. hey name you look so stupid in this vid
4. hey name why are you in this vid
5. hey name i can’t believe youre tagged this vid
6. ROTFL name what are you doing in this vid
It comes at a time, just when most of the spam links like Who Viewed Your Profile and Photos of Dead Osama Bin Laden just came to a standstill. All these links when clicked leads to malevolent sites which steals data from your PC. It spreads like wildfire, as you click the link the Facebook’s API allows the application to post on all your friend’s wall.
To prevent this spam don’t click on links in Facebook whatever attractive it may be! Hackers are just using the curiosity of a user to good use to complete their mission. Facebook has to plug this loophole. It has to either stop allowing access for such API system or needs to find a new mechanism to stop spam.
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