Facebook Rewards

There have been several reports of people receiving text/ SMS, email or direct message from fb@rewardsfacebook.com or Facebook@rewardfacebook.com informing them that they have been chosen to receive a gift or a reward, usually an apple device, that they can claim by visiting a particular website.

Examples of such Facebook rewards text messages are as follow:

Facebook has teamed up with some premium retailers to offer our users some great gifts! Your account has been randomly selected to receive a free gift.
Your free gift is - 1 iPad 2 64GB.
To claim your gift you must visit http://ipad2.chronine.com/ and follow the instructions on screen.
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Facebook has teamed up with some premium retailers to offer our users some great gifts! Your account has been randomly selected to receive a free gift.
Your free gift is - 1 Best Buy Gift Card.
To claim your gift your must visit http://giftcard.chronine.com/ and follow the instructions on screen.
**IMPORTANT** In order to actually receive your gift card you must enter this Pin/Confirmation number after your shipping address. If you do not enter this pin you will not receive your gift.

The Pin/Confirmation is on page 3 after validating your email and address.
You have until midnight tonight to claim your reward.

Unfortunately, Facebook has not teamed up with any company or retailer to give away stuff. Facebook give aways such as these are common strategies used by scammers to lure people into visiting malicious websites that would entice you to install rogue browser addons or application or answer surveys.

You may also be prompted to provide your personal information such as your contact number, which they can further use to send you more spam or bombard your with marketing garbages.

You will not receive the promised give away by "following the instructions" provided in those pages or sites.

Make sure to warn your friends about these fake rewards and offers, share this post on Facebook:

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Watch what happens when forgets to turn off your kamera

If you happen to have seen a posting of what looks like a video about "Watch what happens when forgets to turn off your kamera" shared by a friend in Facebook, please refrain from clicking on this link, liking it or sharing as this is likely yet another scam spreading on Facebook.




What You Should Do
Most Facebook scams contain intriguing and inviting messages to lure people into clicking out the link given. People would even answer surveys or provide personal information supposedly so they can watch an interesting vidoe shared by a friend on Facebook. Do not fall to these scams.

Here's what you should do:

1. Mark such messages as spam. Once you see this message on a friend's wall or even in your wall, make sure to report the posting to Facebook. Simply go to the arrow down or x mark beside the post and click the "report as spam" text.



2. If the message automates posting of the spammy message on your friends' wall, make sure to check the latest facebook application that you have provided access to your account account and remove from your apps. To do this go to HOME and then ACCOUNT SETTINGS and click the x mark beside the suspicious application.

2. Tell your friends about this video scam by sharing this post on Facebook.

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Oops! Selena and Bieber’s hidden camera bedroom video

Young celebrities Justin Bieber and Selena are among the most popular names in Facebook hoaxes and scams. Because of their popularity and big following among Facebook users, their names are often used to lure people, teenagers usually, into falling to survey scams or unknowingly install malicious softwares or even download viruses.



It is no wonder that new versions of Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber keep showing up in the social network, the latest ones, bearing these messages:

EXCLUSIVE!!! The “Young Love” Stolen Video Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez.
http://tinyurl.com/justinLa0CH hey this is really cool! Stolen Video Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez

Oops!!! There Was a Hidden Camera in Justin Bieber’s Bedroom

Oops!!! There was a hidden camera in Selena & bieber’s bedroom
HaHa it’s really so funny – Don’t Miss it!
justinhiddentruth.co.cc

Do not fall to the scam. Always think twice before clicking on and sharing videos and images of popular celebrities in Facebook. This holds especially true when you notice that the image or video spread so fast in your network. Malicious Faceook apps spreading these hoax messages may employ clickjacking so whenever you tried to view the malicious messages, you too start to post the same message in your wall and even into your Facebook friends' walls.

What to Do

This will surely not be the last time that scams taking advantage of celebrities' names spread on Facebook. You can, however, help avert the spread of these Facebook scams.

Make sure to flag the message as scam and tell your friends NOT to click on this link as this may lead to installation of rogue browser plugins.



and do not forget to share this post on Facebook.

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Hoax Claims Rihanna is Dead

 

Refrain from reposting and spreading the misleading information to your friends that the singer is dead.

Please share this post on Facebook to let your friends know that this news is yet another Facebook hoax.

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Eat at McDonalds for FREE

With thousands of branches and chains worldwide, McDonald's is undeniably one of the most popular, if not the most successful of the fast food restaurants worldwide. It is currently the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants with presence in 119 countries serving approximately 68 million customers everyday.

Unfortunately, McDonald's popularity also have drawbacks since the iconic name has repetitively been used in spreading false humors and bogus offers in the social networking site Facebook. Together with such Starbucks, Best Buys and a number of popular other consumer brands, hoax news and fake offers from MacDonalds is often used to lure innocent people to answer surveys or provide their personal details to online scammers.

If you love the popular fastfood chain McDonalds, be sure not to fall to survey scams that distribute fake MCDonals meal vouchers to dupe facebookers into reposting the scam and answering surveys:

Eat at McDonalds for FREE! (limited time only)
McDonald’s is currently giving away free meal vouchers to all Facebook users!!

Things to Remember:

1. This message is a survey scam. Remember not to like or repost in on your wall because you will not get any free meal or gift certificate for doing so.

2. Mark the message as spam so Facebook will flag this as abusive.
3. Share this post on Facebook to warn your friendsnot to fall to the McDonals free voucher scam.

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Chat Zoom

The Chatzoom Facebook application promises to provide Facebook users with an option to easily scrutinize photos posted by their friends by giving them the ability to magnify an image by just hovering their mouse over it. Chatzum aka the chatzoom application, however, appears to be yet another spammy application that is automating posting of this message in Facebook:

... is using Use Zoom / Chat Zoom to magnify Facebook images when hovering with the mouse. and increase speed of loading. #782137 http://bit.ly/ImageZoom?5184000
Chat-zum Enhancse your Facebook photo viewing experience
http://www.chatzum.me/010812

Scameo does not recommend using applications that spam your wall without your consent. These include the chat zum facebook application.

Removal: How to Remove Chatzum / Chatzoom

Make sure that you remove the post promoting the facebook chat zoom that is posted in your wall. This post may lure your friends to get the application themselves:

Click the arrow beside the post and select report story or spam. Refer to the image below:


To uninstall from Windows:

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.

Internet Explorer:

Select tools > “manage add-ons” > Right click and ChatZum and select disable.

Tell your friends how to remove chatzoom, share this post on Facebook:

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Facebook and Apple Partnership; Zuckerberg Giving Away Ipads and Iphones?

Facebook Apple Partnership and Mark Zuckerberg Ipad Giveaway
A message supposedly from Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg claims that the social networking giant has partnered with gadget behemoth Apple. Additionally, the message claims, Mark Zuckerberg is giving away free Apple iPhones and iPads as a promotional event of the partnership.


This new message, however, is just a newer twist of older ipad and iphone Facebook give away scams and just like its predecessors, the new scam entices people to view a video, fill out a survey and give their email addresses supposedly in exchange to be guaranteed a free apple or iphone from Zuckerberg / Facebook. The Apple Facebook give away is a scam. Stay away from answering surveys or giving your email addresses under the impression that you will receive free gifts for your efforts.

Messages about Facebook giving away ipad also circulate via email. If you have received the Mark Zuckerberg Iphone giveaway email, make sure to flag the email as spam since this is a hoax.

My name is Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer of Facebook. We have recently partnered up with Apple company for a one-time promotional event today, we are giving away free Apple iPhones and iPads to randomly selected individuals who have been fortunate to be picked as one of our newest winners for today. We randomly selected users from our systems database and you have matched with our latest drawing.

We have partnered up with Apple to advertise their most popular product yet, the Apple iPhone and iPad. Once again, we are running this campaign for one-day only. All you need to do is CLICK HERE to check out our web site made for this promotion and fill out this short survey to get yours for free. Simply make sure you enter your email so we may locate our records to guarantee that we have reserved one for you. That is it!

If you receive this message make sure to mark the message as spam and warn your friends by sharing this post on Facebook.

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Worm Steals Facebook Passwords

Ramnit on Facebook
Ramnit worm, a malware traditionally known to harvest financial login credentials is now reported to be preying on Facebook users. Seculert Research Lab reports that to date, the ramnit malware has already stolen more than 45,000 Facebook login credentials worldwide. Majority of these compromised accounts are reported to be from France and UK.

Protecting Yourself from Ramnit

1. Make sure to use strong passwords. Avoid using the same password in your online accounts. Cybercriminals behind the ramnit (and similar other password stealing malwares) exploit this type of poor computer security practice to harvest login credentials.

2. Always think twice before clicking links or opening file attachments sent to you by your Facebook social contacts. These links may redirect you to malicious pages that may prompt you to give away your account details (e.g passwords and user email).


Example of a site imitating the Facebook login page to harvest Facebook user login credentials

3. Share this post on Facebook and tell your friends to secure their accounts from hackers and cybercriminals.

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Free $500.00 Victoria Secret Gift Cards

Do you know that scammers distributing false claims, bogus news and fake gift cards on Facebook do so because once people click on their links and provide personal information or answer surveys, they earn?

This explains the number of bogus gift cards, give aways and free coupons rapidly spreading in the social network. Scammers are taking advantage of facebookers who are eager to receive freebies this holiday season.

One of these new scams appear to target ladies who may drool on the supposed Victoria's secret merchandises that they dream of getting their hands to if they receive the supposed free gift cards on Facebook. By how the messages are reshared on Facebook, it appear that the gift cards are distributed by the popular lingerie brand for Facebook users.

FREE $500.00 Victoria Secret Gift Card!! (limited time only)
freeoneszz.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com
Victoria's secret is currently giving away gift cards to all facebook users

Unfortunately, the Victoria's Secret free gift cards on Facebook is a hoax. Do not fall to this scam. Here's what you must do once you see the misleading message being spread on Facebook:

1. Be reminded that the Free $500.00 Victoria Secret Gift Cards or vouchers is a bogus offer. Make sure not to reshare the message on your wall.

2. Report "Free $500.00 Victoria Vouchers" messages as spam. Click the x mark beside the post and report as spam. The image below shows how you do it:



3. Share this post on Facebook and inform your friends not to fall for the fake Victoria Secret give aways on Facebook

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Selena Gomez Caught On LEAKED Tape

Selena is yet again a victim of new video scams circulating in Facebook. The young singer actress is getting her rounds as the subject of misleading news spread by scammers who want to monetize from paid surveys.

Selena Gomez Caught On (LEAKED Tape)
you will lost your all respect for Selena Gomez after watching this

Selena Gomes is just an addition to an ever growing roster of actresses, singers and popular personalities whose names have been used to make people on Facebook answer surveys. If you happened to have seen this bogus news on Facebook, make sure to do the following:

Report “Selena Gomez Caught On LEAKED Tape” messages as spam. Click the x mark beside the post and report as spam. The image below shows how:



Share this post on Facebook to warn your friends about this scam:

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