{"id":72475,"date":"2011-09-13T06:52:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T06:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=72475"},"modified":"2011-09-13T06:52:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T06:52:49","slug":"facebook-free-t-shirt-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/facebook-free-t-shirt-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Free T-shirt SPAM!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spammers keep on using different techniques to hijack social networking accounts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Free Complimentary FB T-shirt&#8221;<\/strong> is observed to be the latest Facebook spam.<br \/>\nThis spam posts an image on your profile when you are infected. This image is shown below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/a.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You might notice that the link in the image is shortened in order to prevent the user from knowing where the link is leading him to.<br \/>\nThese type of shortened links are dangerous. Clicking on the link takes you to the following pages:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/38.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/39.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As shown above, the link mines your personal information and spreads the message to your friends through status updates.<br \/>\nYour friends are further enticed to get a free t-shirt, eventually making this scam spread further.<\/p>\n<p>And so, the cycle repeats.<\/p>\n<p>It is also observed that this scam automatically \u2018likes\u2019 the status update of a friend who has been attacked by the same scam. In other words, the \u2018inter-liking\u2019 of status updates is convincing enough to magnetize your attention and force you to click on the link, but you\u2019d be better off not clicking on it!<\/p>\n<p>If you have accidentally clicked on such links we suggest you do the following:<br \/>\n&#8211; Update you credentials<br \/>\n&#8211; Remove fake application<br \/>\n&#8211; Remove fake \u201cLike\u201d from your wall<br \/>\n&#8211; Remove fake events<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spammers keep on using different techniques to hijack social networking accounts. &#8220;Free Complimentary FB T-shirt&#8221; is observed to be the latest Facebook spam. This spam posts an image on your profile when you are infected. This image is shown below: You might notice that the link in the image is shortened in order to prevent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,24],"tags":[64,42,43,25,29],"class_list":["post-72475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-malware","tag-facebook-applications","tag-facebook-scam","tag-facebook-malware","tag-phishing","tag-social-engineering"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}