Facebook Gold Account Scam
By Gina on February 23, 2010 | Computer Security, Facebook, Gold Account, get your upgrade while their free, Facebook Gold Account
Attention: there is no Facebook Gold account. The new scam is released and do not fall for it. This is attacker's way of seeking a quick profit.
Facebook pages have been set up with names like “GET YOUR UPGRADE WHILE THEIR FREE!!” Moreover, it promises a simple use of the account and freedom from advertisements. However, bogus Facebook Gold account looks like a real one, but actually the spelling error in the page title is a clue that account is a fake. What is more, comments are not real at all. It is just an image file which itself links to the scam web page.
As it was written earlier about the scammers' several “Monthly charge” frauds , now they make money from quick quizzes that users are filling. First of all, if you follow all the instructions, first you invite all your friends to come and check out this Gold account. If you are credulous enough you are able to click on the button for the one free survey. The main goal for the survey like that is to make user put his mobile phone number and agree to pay an amount of money. From that moment you are joining to fee followed by your first payment every week until you cancel your membership via SMS.
It depends on you how you will choose to resolve it. However, you can avoid this mistake and before you forward anything to any of your friends or contacts, research it. Never give up your mobile phone number to receive the results of an online quiz or survey, if they can’t show you in a web page. Just be careful and evaluate situation when you here any information about Facebook functionality being added/taken away/made chargeable unless you hear it from Facebook themselves.
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