Yet another malicious Facebook app: “Father crashes and dies”
Over the weekend, a lot of Facebook users started receiving malicious chat messages from their friends that looked like this:
“Father crashes and dies because of THIS message posted on his daughters profile wall!” – followed by a shortened URL (using the bit.ly URL shortening services). The missing apostrophe in the word “daughter’s” – i.e. “daughter’s profile wall” – could be a clue that the message is not genuine, or at least that the author is not a native English speaker, but let’s take a look at what would happen to a user who falls for this social engineering trick.
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