Just as any health care worker can tell you there's no such thing as 100 percent "safe" sex, every Facebook user should know there's no such thing as "safe" clicking. And if abstinence is not an option for you on either of these activities, the best you can do is educate yourself on possible risks. How appropriate then is the Facebook scam du jour, "The World Funniest Condom Commercial — LOL" currently infecting Facebook profiles all over the social network.
"The messages are spreading through a clickjacking scam (sometimes known as likejacking) which means that users do not realize that they are invisibly pressing that they 'Like' the video when they try to play it," Sophos reports. Appropriately enough, "the scam appears to be being perpetrated by the same gang who have been successfully spreading a "Baby born amazing effect" scam over the last several days."
Clickjacking is one of the ways spam is spread around Facebook. Clickjackers trick you into accessing links and/or "Like" buttons by hiding the code underneath content that piques your interest — such as "OMG! CNN CONFIRMS OSAMA BIN LADEN ALIVE" or that video of that thing Justin Bieber did to that girl that "YOU WON'T BELIEVE!"
As with most clickjacking spam, the "The World Funniest Condom Commercial — LOL" offers multiple tip-offs, such as the apostrophe "s" missing at the end of "World," the use of "LOL," and the use of sex as bait. Note: Most spam scams on Facebook cover three no-fail topics: Sex, death and Justin Bieber.
Fail to pick up on these clues and click to see "The World Funniest Condom Commercial — LOL" and you've also inadvertently "Liked" the link, spreading it to your now-annoyed Facebook friends and family. Unlike many spam scams on Facebook however, you are rewarded with anArgentinian condom commercial, though you can see on YouTube right now without getting unfriended. And SPOILER ALERT! It is not the funniest condom comercial in the world. That would be this one.
As Sophos points out, Facebook recently announced security updates to help alert users to clickjacking scams via automatic prompts to confirm whether you actually want to "Like" what you're about to click, thus adding it to your Likes and Interests and spamming their friends. These updates haven't yet proved effective, and since scammers are always looking for away in, it's important to stay vigilant if you want to avoid annoying your friends.
In review, here are some things we can safely assume you won't see via Facebook: Osama bin Laden's corpse, that video of that thing Justin Bieber did to that girl or what happened when that girl's dad walked in on her, an app that reveals who has been looking at your profile or what you'll look like when you're old, and an authentic message from Facebook WRITTEN IN CAPS LOCK.
"The messages are spreading through a clickjacking scam (sometimes known as likejacking) which means that users do not realize that they are invisibly pressing that they 'Like' the video when they try to play it," Sophos reports. Appropriately enough, "the scam appears to be being perpetrated by the same gang who have been successfully spreading a "Baby born amazing effect" scam over the last several days."
Clickjacking is one of the ways spam is spread around Facebook. Clickjackers trick you into accessing links and/or "Like" buttons by hiding the code underneath content that piques your interest — such as "OMG! CNN CONFIRMS OSAMA BIN LADEN ALIVE" or that video of that thing Justin Bieber did to that girl that "YOU WON'T BELIEVE!"
As with most clickjacking spam, the "The World Funniest Condom Commercial — LOL" offers multiple tip-offs, such as the apostrophe "s" missing at the end of "World," the use of "LOL," and the use of sex as bait. Note: Most spam scams on Facebook cover three no-fail topics: Sex, death and Justin Bieber.
Fail to pick up on these clues and click to see "The World Funniest Condom Commercial — LOL" and you've also inadvertently "Liked" the link, spreading it to your now-annoyed Facebook friends and family. Unlike many spam scams on Facebook however, you are rewarded with anArgentinian condom commercial, though you can see on YouTube right now without getting unfriended. And SPOILER ALERT! It is not the funniest condom comercial in the world. That would be this one.
In review, here are some things we can safely assume you won't see via Facebook: Osama bin Laden's corpse, that video of that thing Justin Bieber did to that girl or what happened when that girl's dad walked in on her, an app that reveals who has been looking at your profile or what you'll look like when you're old, and an authentic message from Facebook WRITTEN IN CAPS LOCK.
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