Millions of Facebook Users Invited to Rogue Events by Spammers


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<h3>Millions of Facebook Users Invited to Rogue Events by Spammers

By Lucian Constantin

Security researchers warn that millions of users have been invited to attend fake Facebook events that are used by cybercrooks for survey spam.

One of these rogue events is called "Who blocked you from his friend list ?" and already has over 165,000 confirmed attendees.

What's interesting about this spam event is the number of people whose response is still pending, over 10,300,000.

There have also been around 70,000 users who answered that they might be attending and 880,000 who declined. We can, therefore, conclude that around 1 in 6 people decided to attend.

The actual spam is inserted in the event's description and instructs users to visit a link in order to access the promised content.

However, the link takes them to a spoofed Facebook page which displays a dialog asking them to participate in a survey before continuing. For every user that agrees to do so, the scammers earn a hefty commission.<br style="">

Read more details here: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Millions-of-Facebook-Users-Invited-to-Rogue-Events-by-Spammers-192964.shtml

And here: http://blog.trendmicro.com/

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