Facebook Watcher

Most recently, there are two (2) Facebook forge sites, with the URL FaceUbook.com and Faceiibook.com appeared on the Web. The domain URL’s landing page design is the same as Facebook new design, respectively, which made some users mistakenly typed in their IDs and passwords onto these two forge sites.

The URL links of these two forge sites are mostly came from emails into some Facebook users’ Inbox in the format as follows:

Hey! you have a Crush waiting for you on your Facebook!! See here!

hey! somebody wrote something about you in their blog here members.aol.com/hottyblogy54354

While I clicked on the above AOL blog page, it seems AOL is aware of this spam message and deleted this hottyblogy54354 page. The URL links of the messages aforesaid are touting people to sign-in their Facebook accounts, so that their personal information will be leaked to the forger, whom believed is from China with the following email, i.e. lizhilin_lizhilin1@126.com, according to the whois record of faceiibook.com and faceubook.com.

First thing first, never ever log on to Facebook using any external URL link other than www.facebook.com that sent via IM or email. “Facebook Users, Beware of the Fake Hubs.”

I am a big fan of Facebook, and believed that it will not close users’ accounts simply because it is overpopulated. To strengthening your belief in Facebook, you need to subscribe to this Facebook Security page. All those chain letters are hoax. We know Facebook will fix it, just like they fixed the worm attack recently. Meanwhile, you can join and donate to this cause, i.e. Stop Facebook Chain Letters if you want to.

A friend asked me before what one should act when she just join Facebook? My simple answer is that don’t simply add fake Facebook friend to your inner circle as well as join the fake group. Of course, there are many fake profiles that one can’t easily differentiated in Facebook, as I also wrote a post entitled, “Profiting from fake profiles” last month.

But for the fake group, I think I found the answer which I hope I won’t make a mistake. My simple conclusion for a Facebook group is: Good admin is good group. It’s a rare exception where good Facebook group don’t accompany good admin(s), or it’s even a rare exception where a Facebook group don’t have any admin.

Last week, I found that a Facebook group which have no admins. There is a statement appeared on the Group, i.e. There are no admins left in this group! Beware of this kind of groups, that’s because one good admin will not simply build a Facebook group and then leave the group, before she has properly introduced another Facebook member to take over the admin jobs.

Somebody has created ten Facebook fake profiles and is trying to make a profit from selling these fake profiles on eBay. These profiles are said to have a minimum 200 friends each. In January this year, CNet reported that 43% of Facebook messages are spam, now I wonder how many of the Facebook profiles are fake?

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Update: I checked out the eBay link, it showed “This listing (260249755056) has been removed or is no longer available.“