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The New Facebook Scam Revealed And Exposed! by Decryptor(m): 7:13am On Jan 26, 2013
Facebook users who've clicked viral links such as 'Click This if You Hate Cancer' could be in for a nasty surprise.
The links - and others such as 'click this picture and see what happens' do nothing except make cyber-scammers rich.
Once the pages have collected huge numbers of 'Likes', they are then sold, for cash, to other businesses who use them to make their page appear popular.
A blog post by Daylan Pearce, a search-engine expert at Next Digital in Melbourne, explains how the nonsense posts scam works - and shows how the pages are sold on.

The posts - images with captions such as 'Like if you can see the tiger,' or 'Comment and see what happens' are used to build 'Likes' and 'Comments' for pages.
Once a page has collected thousands of likesand comments, it will appear higher in people's News Feeds on Facebook - 'Likes' are the 'currency' of the site, as it were.

Pages with 100,000 likes can be sold for $200, according to adverts unearthed by Pearce.
Pearce explains in a blog post , 'The Facebook Like algorithm is Facebook’s way of dictating if content is of any value to users. The more likes/shares/comments it gets, the more exposure to certain people it,and the profile it belongs to, will get both short term and long term

'All these metrics contribute to a users ‘edgerank’ – the score your profile is given that dictates how your page interacts with other profiles on Facebook. '
'Within 3 days a post like this one has 70,000 likes, and someone somewhere is about to make a nice little profit by selling the page to a business wanting some quick wins. The buyer then changes the page details.Instant fanpage with a big following, lots of likes and an in depth edge rank.
David Emm, senior security research at Kaspersky Lab, says, 'Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are increasingly becoming targets for cybercriminals.

'The main reason for this is the trust that people feel whilst socialising with their friends online. People are much more likely to click on a link shared by a friend, and this inherent trust is something cybercriminals prey upon.'
'Over the past 10 years, we’ve seen incredible growth in the amount of personalinformation people will voluntarily share, and cybercriminals have naturally ‘followed the money’ by creating scams specifically targeting social networks.'
Source: http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/facebook-spam-scam-secret-revealed.html?orig_host_hdr=uk.news.yahoo.com&.intl=GB&.lang=en-GB
Re: The New Facebook Scam Revealed And Exposed! by Decryptor(m): 7:18am On Jan 26, 2013
So in summary,all these stories we see on facebook today where one is told to "comment and hit the like button" or where you read an out-of-this-world miraculos event about a baby that came back to life after being in the mortuary for 1 week and you are told to say "Amen" as a comment is meant to get thousands of likes and comments and after that, the page is sold to a brand or product who will convert and customise the page to their company page. For example, when page hits like 100,000 likes, a company that perhaps sells condoms will buy it from the author for about $200 or more and change it from the author's chosen name to ABC condoms where "ABC" is the name of that company. By then, they'll gain that popularity on facebook and it will in turn boost their profits and sales. And it will have ur names written on it as a page you liked So when next you are told to hit the "like" button on a story of an outrageous miracle, THINK TWICE!
Re: The New Facebook Scam Revealed And Exposed! by braine(m): 7:31am On Jan 26, 2013
I don't like anything on Facebook. Someone will just upload a ridiculous picture and say "click like and see what happens", then you see thousands of likes; and I'm like, are these people so retar.ded?
Re: The New Facebook Scam Revealed And Exposed! by Decryptor(m): 8:02am On Jan 26, 2013
braine: I don't like anything on Facebook. Someone will just upload a ridiculous picture and say "click like and see what happens", then you see thousands of likes; and I'm like, are these people so retar.ded?
That's the game plan. Get more likes and then sell the page. Nothing actally happens when u click the like button. People who fall for that are so guillible
Re: The New Facebook Scam Revealed And Exposed! by Francheezy(m): 2:39pm On Jan 26, 2013
click like if JESUS is your SAVI0UR, ignore if he is n0t.

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