It becomes harder to keep a strict control of the countless scammers out there on Facebook who will not stop at pulling a trick or two every now and then. It appears that the social networks massive population has become a safe haven for them all as another prank surfaced. Apparently fb.59.to is the new virus that does nothing very harmful save changing the picture on your profile.
Other than that it does the most damaging thing; Spamming your contacts which can actually drive many people away. The virus is embedded behind an iFrame which makes it impossible for users to determine the malicious content behind the frame and it asks you to take the Human Test to have you find the Blue Button. But don’t click, as it is the share button of Facebook and believe me finding that would make you human, albeit a foolish one for all your friends. The action takes you to the fb.59.to web page, the good part is you aren’t affected in any harmful way visiting the site, instead directed to a YouTube video that as of present has been viewed more than 41,000 times.
Now I am not sure what is this all about, but believing that out the 350 Million that Facebook has, 41,000 of them have actually fallen prey to this. Anyways there have been far too many incidents of such sort reported quite frequently, users should be more than watchful of clicking on suspicious links. You can follow our coverage of recent Phishing scams on Facebook here.
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