Photoshopped image scam used in rogue Facebook app trap

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Photoshopped image scam used in rogue Facebook app trap

Spreading across social network at 90,000 clicks an hour

By John Leyden

Facebook users were put under fire on Monday by a brace of new threats, one of which spreads through a link disseminated through the Facebook Chat application.

An estimated 600,000 people have already clicked onto the link, which falsely promises to show them a funny Photoshopped image of themselves. In reality users install a rogue application which sends messages to their contacts via the social network's IM feature, thus continuing the infection cycle.

Users are taken to a fixed gallery of 45 photoshopped images (such as the image of someone's features morphed onto a dog's head), none of which feature the person who followed the link. M86 Security reports that the scam, whose purpose is unknown, is spreading quickly, attracting new victims at the rate of around 90,000 clicks per hour.

Story here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/04/photoshop_image_facebook_scam/