Last month I blogged about a rogue Facebook application that had tricked hundreds of thousands of users into giving it access to their profiles, and spreading a message saying they were "never texting again".
Today I stumbled across a Facebook page called "I May NEVER TÊXT AGAIN After Reading THI$!!" ("I May Never Text Again After Reading This!!") which uses a similar message to encourage users into "liking" it, and sharing a similar message to all of their Facebook friends.
Here's a YouTube video where I demonstrate what happens:
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Remember, the issue here isn't just that you're helping scammers earn money by advertising links to their online surveys - by "liking" Facebook pages like this you are also opening yourself up to the possibility of future attacks too.
Over 200,000 Facebook users have already "liked" the rogue page, meaning that at anytime the unknown owner of the page can send them an update which could contain an unwanted advertising message or - worse - a malicious link.
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how do i unlike?
If you're logged into Facebook, clicking a Like button for the first time adds you to its "likers". If you click again on a button you already Like, that "unlikes" it. (Not as obvious as it could be. Once Liked, the button changes appearance but doesn't change to say that it now works as "Unlike" .)
Never thought we'd need verbs in English such as "unfriend" and "unlike"...
Profile -> Info -> Click edit in "likes and interests" -> Click "show other pages" - > Now you can click "remove" on the pages you dont want to like anymore.
THANK YOU, N.B. Thomsen!!!
It worked!!! Thanks ;)
THANKS!
thank you so much for the information /////Happy New
year
I just turn off all platform applications. That way, I have 100% confidence.
how do you do that?
How do I unlike????????????
please read... omg, people these days...
Gotta say, I feel like anyone who believes something as obvious as that deserves whatever's coming to them.
They sure do, Jacob. They sure do.
My mother got this on her facebook, and although I was almost positive it was a scam, I still clicked out of sheer curiousity. My mother can barely work facebook, she wouldn't have opened the link because, she didn't know you could like things until just a short time ago.