A rogue application is spreading via Facebook, claiming to offer easy invitations to Facebook’s new rival in the social network market, Google+.
Many Facebook users have had messages like the following appear on their newsfeed:
Google+ – Get Invite
Unoffical Fan Page
Page: XX,XXX people like this.
If you visit the page, you are invited to allow a third-party application to access your Facebook account.
You should also exercise great caution about what third party apps you allow to access your Facebook records, especially when they are demanding the ability to post to your wall and grab personal information such as your date of birth and current location.
Nevertheless, if you are hungry to get a Google+ Invite or to find an easier way to encourage your Facebook friends to join you on Google+ then you might (unwisely) carry on regardless.
The next thing which…
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