{"id":27,"date":"2010-01-02T12:53:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T17:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darwin-mach.net\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2010-01-02T12:53:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T17:53:53","slug":"another-facebook-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/02\/another-facebook-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Facebook Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well you know about the previous Dell Facebook scam? (<a href=\"http:\/\/darwin-mach.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/10\/dell-promotion-facebook-scam\/\">http:\/\/darwin-mach.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/10\/dell-promotion-facebook-scam\/<\/a>) This one&#8217;s worse, but uses the exact same code, which does the exact same thing.<\/p>\n<p>The theme now is that it claims to install &#8220;Profile Spy&#8221;, to help you see who&#8217;s looking at your profile, etc, but THERE IS NO SUCH THING. There&#8217;s only a few apps that really do this, but it requires your visitors also install the app, for the sake of their own privacy.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; about 900,000 people have joined the Facebook group as of writing, and I reported it to Facebook again. We&#8217;ll see how long it takes them.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to the most recent scam &#8211; http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=209645259791 (you have to click on the &#8220;read more&#8221; link).<\/p>\n<p>There was also another previous one before this one, but after the Dell one, involving &#8220;Crimson Labs&#8221; and a giveaway of iMacs.<\/p>\n<p>Please! READ EVERYTHING CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU SAY YES. If anything looks suspicious or doesn&#8217;t make sense, well&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well you know about the previous Dell Facebook scam? (http:\/\/darwin-mach.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/10\/dell-promotion-facebook-scam\/) This one&#8217;s worse, but uses the exact same code, which does the exact same thing. The theme now is that it claims to install &#8220;Profile Spy&#8221;, to help you see who&#8217;s looking at your profile, etc, but THERE IS NO SUCH THING. There&#8217;s only a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[33,35,34],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-security","category-online-privacy","tag-javascript","tag-privacy","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}