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Facebook Dislike Hype Exploited In Phishing Campaign

Posted by samzenpus on from the click-here-and-win-a-prize dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A new Facebook scam is quickly spreading across the social network which plays on the announcement of the highly-anticipated 'Dislike' button. A new scamming campaign is now exploiting impatient Facebook users anxiously awaiting the dislike button addition, by tricking them into believing that they can click on a link to gain early access to the feature. Once the unsuspecting victim selects a link, they are led to a malicious website, which enables access to their private Facebook accounts and allows the hackers to share further scam links on their behalf.

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  1. Moderation system by MrKaos · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Do any other sites have the same sort of moderation system that /. has?

    Moderated 'dislike' or 'like' seems kind of lame in comparison.

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    1. Re:Moderation system by rmdingler · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's an interesting comparison. While the slashdot system obviously allows us a more fine-grained expression of opinion, it's widely abused, e.g. people modding down posts as redundant or overrated because they disagree with the content of the post. And the maximum +5 score means you can't tell if just a handfull of people found a post interesting, or thousands of people. You also can't really tell how controversial a post is from the score on slashdot...

      Right, you'd still have to actually read the post to form an opinion. Life is crazy hard.

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    2. Re:Moderation system by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 2

      It's an interesting comparison. While the slashdot system obviously allows us a more fine-grained expression of opinion, it's widely abused, e.g. people modding down posts as redundant or overrated because they disagree with the content of the post. And the maximum +5 score means you can't tell if just a handfull of people found a post interesting, or thousands of people.

      ^^^ THIS, times about a billion.

      Was it a few people that disagreed with you, or 10,000? With slashdot's moderation system you'll never know.

      Slashdot could show the full tally (i.e. "437 up votes and 192 down votes") but for some reason they want to use a lobotomized post rating system.

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    3. Re:Moderation system by torqer · · Score: 4, Informative

      Slashdot moderation isn't Youtube moderation. Slashdot grants users who have earned amount of Karma, and who visit the site regularly, 5 moderation points.

      Youtube, et al, let every Tom Dick and Harry (and bot) vote.

      The more scarce moderation points should be carrying significantly more meaning than one like, thumbs up, or +1. For me at least, /. isn't about finding the most popular statement. It's about finding the salient arguements around a subject. I'd much rather read 20 +3 comments, than 5 comments with 432154315438 likes. All a like proves is popularity.

      Save the whales [+11564847]

    4. Re:Moderation system by maeka · · Score: 2

      I surely can't be in the minority in getting 15 mod points at a time. I have a rather unremarkable account history.

    5. Re:Moderation system by maeka · · Score: 2

      you should meta-moderate if you've never been given mod points.

  2. Re:It is not the first time by LaurenCates · · Score: 2

    I remember at some point in the last two years or so someone put up a poll whose question was "Do you want me not to de-friend you?" or something to that effect. And then I started seeing it pop up everywhere on my feed. So, I looked into it. An angry post from me followed to the effect of: "okay, people, cool it. You know that this is a poll, and it really isn't directed at you, and was probably started by someone you didn't know? Okay, so stop responding to it!"

    Another was more recent: over a recent holiday weekend, there was a post that someone put up saying that a certain pickup truck (pictured) with a certain license plate was driving around our town (which was named in the post) and picking up dogs to be used as bait for dog fights (in this town, it's almost strange if you don't have a dog). This developed some traction among my group of friends, except for the most skeptical of us: the truck was pictured but no surrounding area; the license plate was not identified from any particular state, and the township police's Facebook page (which fairly regularly reports on local crime) didn't post anything.

    Point I'm making here is that people seem to get stirred up about things without actually investigating. If you can find something that a great number of people are invested in (like Facebook or pets), you can quickly find a way to get people all kinds of worked up and bypass critical thinking skills in the process.

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  3. Re:It is not the first time by torqer · · Score: 2

    Wow. The trusted source of truth for a township is a Facebook page. I don't mean it as a slight to the commenter, it's probably very accurate, it just is amazing to me what the world has become.

    I feel old.

  4. But, but, but, by NetNed · · Score: 2

    "The button is big, red, and blinking "push me!!". Seems totally legit to me" says that guy in my office.