Zoomer on Facebook

If somebody has posted a status message on Facebook or sent you a message via chat inviting you to use Zoomer, we advise that you refrain from clicking the attached link (that redirects to the website piccatori.com). Installing the application prompted by these zoomer messages is also not a good idea.

What is Zoomer?
Zoomer describes itself as an application that can magnify news feed images in your Facebook by hovering the cursor over the image. Zoomer also claims to increase the speed of loading. Unfortunately,  zoomer is just another name variation of chatzum and can be aptly described as yet another spammy Facebook application that automates posting of zoomer marketing posts in your wall. It also spams your friends via chat. Once you have installed this app, you will likely be sending this message whenever you chat with your friends in Facebook:

[[[1242183658]]] is using Zoomer to magnify your news feed images when hovering with the mouse. and INCREASES the speed of loading. #1166032 http://bit.ly/QuickZoom?6920030800

How to Stop Zoomer from Spamming Your Wall and Chat

•   Find the zoomer post you or your friend have posted and mark this as spam:

• If you have allowed this zoomer spam application to have access to your Facebook account, go to your ACCOUNT SETTINGS and then APPS. Find the app (if named to something else, find the latest app you used before you start to send out spammy messages) and then click the x mark beside it to delete the application.

•  If you have installed any toolbar prompted by chatzoom, follow the instructions below:

For Windows users:

1. Click windows START button
2. Select Setting /Control panel
3. Select “add remove programs”
4. Select ChatZum Toolbar
5. Select Uninstall

For those using Firefox:

Select tools > options > general tab > “manage add-ons” and select remove chat send

Chrome:

Click the wrench icon on the browser toolbar > Tools > Extensions > Click Uninstall ChatZum.

•  Warn your friends about installing apps like chatzoom and zoomer, share this post on Facebook.

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Free Pair of Ray- Bans on Facebook

It's summer, the best time of the year to wear sunglasses and when it comes to shades and sunglasses, the brand name Ray-Ban retains its prominence. Unfortunately, scammers have been using the popularlity of Ray-ban to scam facebook users. Here's a versopm of the bogus freebie circulating in the social network.

Get a Free Pair of Ray-Bans! (limited time only)!
Current Limited offer
To Celebrate the Summer, We are Giving Away Free Ray-Bans to All Facebook Users!

Why It is a Scam
The free pair of Ray-Bans give away is actually a survey scam. You will be asked to answer surveys before you can supposedly get your free sunglasses (which, unfortunately, does not happen). Moreover, you may even end up spending money. Some of these survey scams may ask for you mobile phone number and you will actually end up signing up for an expensive premium rate service.

What You Should Do
Make sure to mark as spam and remove the Free Pair of Ray- Bans on Facebook messages on Facebook.

Warn your friends about this scam by sharing this post on Facebook.

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Metacafe Videos on Facebook

If your Facebook account is automating posting and sharing of Metacafe videos you watch online, you have likely

enabled the Metacafe app to post in your wall in your behalf. This can be uncomfortable if not annoying at times because people get to know the videos you watch. Here's what you can do to stop this Metacafe videos from spamming your wall:

1. Go to Your Account Settings:



2. On the left-hand corner, click apps and find the Metacafe Facebook app. Click the x mark beside it. This message will show up:

If you remove Metacafe, it will be taken off your timeline, bookmarks and from the list of apps you use in your settings. You can also block apps to prevent them from accessing the non-public information you share with others who use them.

3. Click remove. Your Facebook account should stop showing videos you watch on Metacafe.

4. Additionally, find all messages by your or by your friends sharing metacafe videos on Facebook and mark these messages as spam.

5. Share this post on how to remove Metacafe spam
to your Facebook friends.

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Facebook Timeline Plus Scam

"Facebook timeline plus" is supposedly a Facebook application that promises to allow you to see who's viewing your timeline (statistics) and provide you with an advance privacy settings  through which you can go private or reveal

who hides as offline in your chatbox. The timeline plus app also claims to allow you to change your timeline color and theme  via new timeline plus designs and color palettes.

Cool!!! This is the best update Facebook has ever made! You can now Design your own Timeline! Easy to use Timeline designer on TIMELINE PLUS Try it here>>>

Facebook Timeline Plus Scam


While many Facebook users clearly want to have these features added to the functionality of their accounts, it is clear that the app is another hoax. Facebook has not rolled out viewer statistics, advance privacy settings and new timeline color palette features and even if they plan to do so in the future, Facebook itself will give the official announcement just as they did when they acquired instagram earlier this week.

Fake facebook apps are known to redirect victims to survey sites or prompt them to download files that can be harmful to their computer (e.g viruses and similar malwares).  Stay away from providing Facebook timeline plus access to your Facebook account. Otherwise, the app will likely use your account to spam your friends and tag them with photos that will lure more to use this rogue Facebook app.

Removing Facebook Timeline Plus

If you have been duped by this malicious app and your account is spamming your friends to use Facebook Timeline Plus, here's what you should do:

• Untag yourself from posts or images promoting the Facebook timeline plus scam. This will help prevent others from seeing the misleading post or image of the timeline plus.

• Go to ACCOUNT SETTINGS and then APPS. Find the Facebook timeline plus app (if named to something else, find the latest app you used before you start to send out spammy messages.

• Click the x mark beside the app  to remove it.

• Your Facebook should stop sending spam now.

• Warn your friends about “Timeline Plus” Facebook messages, share this post on Facebook.

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Dailymotion Facebook Spam

Dailymotion Videos on Facebook
Have you been watching Dailymotion videos and you notice that you automatically share these videos to your friends on Facebok? It's annoying when the videos you watch show up in your Facebook feed as if announcing and informing people what you were watching online.

How to Stop Dailymotion from Sharing Videos You Watch

You have likely approved Dailymotion's request to access posts in your news feed which explains why the app can automatically post in your behalf. Here's what you can do to stop Dailymotion from spamming your Facebook wall.

1. Go to Your Account Settings



2. On the left-hand corner, click apps and find the Dailymotion Facebook app. Click remove.



3. Click remove when this message shows up:

If you remove Dailymotion, it will be taken off your timeline, bookmarks and from the list of apps you use in your settings. You can also block apps to prevent them from accessing the non-public information you share with others who use them.

4. Your Facebook account should no longer show videos you watch on Dailymotion.
5. Share this post to your Facebook friends.

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