Emma Watson, the actress who plays the fraction of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, has establish herself the topic of a click jacking scam on Face book.
User of the social network have seen mail posted by their online friends claiming to have misplaced all respect for Emma Watson, after surveillance a video starring the young actress.
I mislaid all respect for Emma Watson when I seen this video! Outrageous!
Other versions may read:I lost all admiration for Emma Watson when I saw this video! Outrageous!
If you’re inquisitive sufficient to click on the link, your browser will be taken to a webpage which pretend to be a YouTube-style video site called FbVideo.
If you’ve got this far, you’ll almost certainly be tempted to tick to view the video. However, like the many click jacking attack we saw on Face book, you will be imperceptibly clicking on a “Like” button without your information, sharing the link further with your friends.
The page is intended to display a survey scam, which both earns money for the scammers and can trick you into handing over your mobile phone number to sign you up for a premium rate SMS service.You can protect yourself from click jacking threats like this by using browser plug-in such as No Script for Firefox.
But wouldn’t it be great if Face book required users to confirm that they wished to “Like” a webpage? That would make scams like have a harder time spreading virally via the social network.
By the way, other versions of the scam are using the names of Miley Cyrus.
If you find you have accidentally “Liked” an offending webpage, remove references to it from your wall and check your profile settings.
As Chet pointed out with a similarly-themed Justin Bieber clickjacking scam on Facebook, it can also make sense to logout from Facebook when you are not actively using it to reduce the probability of you being tricked into “Liking” things you don’t really like.