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)
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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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