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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 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.

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