WARNING: Beware Of Chat Hijackers
Facebook spammers have been hijacking people's accounts to send chat messages touting prizes but only leading to marketing surveys. Completing them wastes your time and puts you at risk or contracting malware and receiving spam, while the spammer earns a commission.
Facebook spammers have been hijacking people’s accounts to send chat messages touting prizes but only leading to marketing surveys. Completing them wastes your time, put you at risk or contracting malware and receiving spam, while the spammer earns a commission.
The schemes appear to spread regardless of whether you click on the links, although I suspect that clicking on them might accelerate the chat-spamming. Here’s a screenshot of one I just received, complete with typos and general weirdness — like the fact that my friend’s account sent this when he wasn’t even on the site.
I noticed that another friend who’d received this same message recognized it as spam sent via a hacker, and posted a friendly warning to that effect.
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