Dating Scam: Fake Facebook Profile

If you are an active Facebook user and often get friend requests from unknown people with attractive profile pics, there is a good reason to worry about.

AllFacebook.com reports of a recent Facebook spam, where an online dating site started attracting hundreds of users by sending fake friend requests and messages. The fake profiles contained vulgar profile pics which made most user curious enough to check their profiles or photo albums.

One of the common attributes of all these fake Facebook profiles is that most of them frequently send the same status update.

Clicking the link takes you to the landing page of an adult website where you are requested to sign up for free. This marketing campaign is a hit, because innocent users never know about the scam and click through the link, which may recommend the same site to their friends

If you want to keep your Facebook account safe from spammers and adult scams, follow these golden rules:

* Never approve friend requests from people whom you don’t know. Nor do send unsolicited mass friend requests to unknown people.
* Tweak your Facebook application settings – don’t allow applications to post in your wall.
* Resist the temptation to click on suspicious links posted on Facebook news feed or to any of your friends wall. You never know what’s behing the link, anyway.
* Report spam a Facebook profile which appears fake or spammy.

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