Facebook Dislike Button Scam
by Frank Jovine on 08/18/2010 in Scams & Hoaxes, Security
Facebook users beware of the fake Facebook “dislike” button! We have confirmed there is in fact a fake “Dislike” button circulating on Facebook. The scammers are using this as bait to mimic the real “Dislike” button that was created by FaceMod.
There are messages being posted on Facebook claiming that users can download and install the “Dislike Button” on their Facebook account.
This is a scam which is baiting Facebook users to spam their friends, install an intrusive toolbar, fill out scam surveys, and provide personal information in order to install the “Dislike Button” for their Facebook account.
Once a user clicks the “Like” button, users are then invited to “Share” the page with their Facebook friends.
After a user clicks on the “Like” button they are taken to a non-Facebook page where they are instructed to click one of several links as a “Security Check”:
These links lead to dangerous websites that are collecting users personal information and offering users to download and install an intrusive and annoying toolbar for their browsers.
Facebook users should be wary of any posts offering a “Dislike Button”, even if the message claims that the button is “official”. At this time, there is no official dislike button offered by Facebook.
FaceMod Dislike Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13672/
dukio
Aug 19th, 2010
The security check offers are from CPALead i believe, so i don’t think it got any malicious content. Just like this site http://removed
Frank Jovine
Aug 19th, 2010
The site you referenced has nothing to do with the subject matter. Are you spamming?
Shipu | The X Views
Aug 19th, 2010
i had clicked such a spam Dislike button last week. Then the browser takes to me something where the webpage was asking my credit card number for more information.
Digital Gupshup
Aug 22nd, 2010
i add like button recently on one of my blog.. i will soon check it for this kind of scam…
justin
Aug 27th, 2010
adding a ‘real’ dislike button to a element or piece of content is actually a more transparent way to demonstrate actual social appeal of said content. For example, if you have 200 photos on your photography website and they all have both like and dislike options, when you look at your FB social graph you should be able to see a more accurate assessment of your content which is both appealing and not appealing. Having one without the other is begging the question and accepting only half of the answer…
FB needs to make an official dislike button..