Free: Access to your friend list, permission to post on your wall and the green light to email you off of Facebook.
That’s the real cost of the latest scam promising free Facebook Credits, 150 of them to be exact. You know you or one of your friends has been hit with the bug when you see the following in your news feed:
Many people appear to be whoring themselves out for a lousy $15 gift that’s way too good to be true. Okay the “w” word is a strong way to say everyone clicked on the blue button you see in the image below, courtesy of Sophos.
Like prior free credit scams and countless ploys promising other things that are too good to be true, people wanted to believe they were going to get something for nothing. Clicking on “allow” turned up what appears to be a commission-earning opportunity for the scammer. Every survey completed earns money for the spammer, while in the background the application works all of the persmissions you gave it to spread virally.If you’ve already allowed this scam to have at your profile, do your pals a favor and remove all traces of it so they don’t make the same mistake you did. Delete the blurb from your news feed and then go to your privacy settings in top right-hand corner of your screen to get rid of the application altogether.
Notice while you’re there that you can remove unwanted or spam applications — we suggest you click on that option. You could also get more proactive and choose to turn off all platform apps. Extra credit: offer a friendly warning about such scams to your pals.
