Looks like Facebook will always end up being in the news with a new controversy cropping up at regular intervals. This time, the hullabaloo is about bogus emails to users' contacts saying 'F a c e b o o k - closing down!!!'The mail, which has a spelling error reads:
"[Friend's name] has just reported you to Facebook for violating our Terms of Service. - This is your official warning! - Click here to find out why you were reported! - Request Facebook look at what has happened and rule immediatley."
Once a user clicks on the link provided, hackers can have access to the user's social networking login details.
According to media reports, this hoax application goes through your contacts list sending itself to your Facebook friends, thus spreading around the social network "virally."
Reportedly, Facebook has now removed the application, although there are reports that similar rogue applications with names such as "My account" and "Reported for Rule Breaking" have also been spotted.
credited to techtree.com
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