Face book users are finding themselves tagged in their online friends’ photo albums, in an attack seemingly under attack at fans of the “Twilight” teen leech romance movies. Following an attack against photo albums using an image of a Playboy-style bunny girl, scammers are now pretending to link to a game promoting the upcoming movie “Twilight Breaking Dawn” starring heart throbs Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart as the starcrossed lovers Edward Cullen and Bella Swan.
As well as Face book photo albums, users are also being tricked into “Liking” the scam links.
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If you click on such a link then you will be taken to a Face book page which to all intents and purpose appear to be promote an online game, being used to market Twilight Breaking Dawn. But if you click on the button marked “Play Now” then you will be click jacked into saying you “Like” the link, thus spreading the link virally to your Face book friends.
If you’re running a protection against click jacking, such as Firefox add-on No Script, then you will be warned – but most people are probably unaware that the page has secretly claimed that they like the game, even though no game has yet been played! The scam doesn’t end there, however, as that would simply spread the link without earning any money for the ne’er-do-wells behind it. Users are then presented with a dialog, asking them to grant permission for a third party application to access their Face book account, and post messages, updates and photos to their wall.
Of course, if you’re a fan of “Twilight” you will quite possibly grant permission without thinking. The only problem being that this isn’t a legitimate application request, but being done by a rogue app which wants to make money out of your devotion to the works of Stephanie Meyer’s series of novels.
Predictably, with the ability to now post to your Face book account, the scammers now present the final piece of the jigsaw: an online survey which earns them affiliate commission for each person who completes the questionnaire. You will note that the survey deliberately presents itself in a convincing Face book style, which may trick some users into believing that it is legitimate. It seems that fans of Twilight are only too easy pickings for Face book scammers, judging by the large number of reports from affected Face book users we are seeing today.