Phony first Facebook status messages lead to rogue application

What are the odds that you and your friends posted your very first messages on Facebook on precisely the same day? May 2nd 2008.

Wouldn’t it be even more remarkable if you posted that very first message at the same time? 6:57am.

And wouldn’t it utterly blow your trousers off if you discovered that you and your friends also posted the same message at the same time on the very same day? What are the chances, eh?

Well, it’s obviously not true. But a new rogue application spreading voraciously across Facebook appears to be claiming precisely that.

My First Facebook Status Was: Hellllooooo ??? Posted on May 2nd 2008 6:57am Find yours out Here!

Please don’t click on the link. It will take you to a rogue application which will then try to post from your Facebook account as well.

Just because your friends may have fallen for this scam, doesn’t mean that you should too. Be smarter than them, and stay clued up about the current tidalwave…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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