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Facebook scam: Free cellphone recharge

This seems to be circulating through the Facebook pages of people with Indian names. Clicking on the numerous Facebook “like” mechanisms would of course spread this thing pretty quickly

The whois information for the connected web site shows it was set up last week with a service provider in Delhi.


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   Sharing it and “liking” all the buttons on the page results in lots of stuff being sent to your friends such as:
 

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Which, of course they can share (spam) with their friends:

 

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The collection includes one of those “whose spying on you?” scams.


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And a great tool bar for “Bible enthusiasts” which is installed by a Trojan:

Tom Kelchner

Full story: GFI Labs blog

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