Application Invite Spam Continues Despite App Crackdown

Facebook has been fighting spam on all fronts. Whether it’s hackers and spammers trying to find loopholes in the site’s security, phish user data, or use other malicious techniques, or developers trying to cheat the platform, spam is a big problem. Just last week I posted about the Snowball Wars application which has since been banned. Today I stumbled across an application invite which asked me to install an application. The only problem was that thee of the links say ignore and one says confirm.

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