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Do you like Facebook and love hitting the Like button wherever you see it then be warned. Reports are coming in about two more scams catching air on the largest social network.

As always these scams should be picked up by anyone who is remotely intelligent but just in case if you are one of those trigger happy intelligent Facebook users just keep an eye on these. The first scam, pictured below is of a man doing something terrible to a girl and the image shows a guy pulling the hair of a girl who is on ground. When you hit the link you are taken to a new page, that would display a video player. If you do click on the video player you are wont see any video but your news feed is filled with gibberish.

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There are reports of a new Facebook virus on the lose and like all predecessors it fetches all those who are very clicky with links. We have warned users a countless times already about these links making way to their mail boxes on Facebook and yet many of our very own readers fall prey to these. Repeating ourselves here; if you do see any of your contact sending you links quite desperately, just ignore if it appears anything close to suspicious.

The current link would download a software to your machine that would infest your machine of all sorts of malicious software. More importantly it would also install a program that will very likely highjack your passwords. Upon clicking the link you will be displayed with a new page that says that you need to rest your Facebook password and the same time download the attachment. Be careful and just delete the mail like it never existed.

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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.

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