The world mourns after the sad news of co-founder and former Chief Executive Office at Apple spread sadness around the technology world. Many bloggers bought up this news for just gaining extra amount of traffic, other than that it also gave a golden chance to facebook spammers to hit facebook users through this new scam.
You might have come across the wall post which says through an eye-catching headline: In memory of Steve Jobs, Apple has decided to giveaway 1000 Limited Edition iPad 2’s.
The scam is really attractive for innocent people who want free iPad 2 through such activities. The scam is not particularly dedicated to attack your PC with viruses and malware but you may lose some of your personal information which you won’t be interested in doing.
The iPad 2 Wall Post Scam:
As soon you click on the link on above wall post the next screen appears to be as:
After sharing the above screen on your wall (sharing scam), the next screen is a survey, which asks for your personal information, have a look:
In the end you would be followed by a few surveys which is useless and just a waste of time. Entering your email address and cell no. will allow spammers to spam on your information, be careful and spread the news among your circle of friends and relatives.
Spread the fake news out. Thanks to CallingGeeks & FaceCrooks for updating us with news and images.
I fell for this. What can I do now to protect myself. Am I done in?
Thanks for the heads-up. I was noticing this on my fb wall from some friends posting the link and was wondering if it was a scam or not, so did some research and found your blog post. Appreciate the warning. I’ve passed this on to friends on fb and twitter…
Glad to hear at least my post secured a person from entering into spam activity
have you submitted your info??