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Millions of Facebook users invited to scam events, as spammers exploit social network

Spammers have invited millions of Facebook users to bogus events on the social network to generate revenue from online survey scams. The scammers embed instructions into the More info section of the events summary, which leads the unsuspecting Facebook user into visiting webpages designed to earn money for those behind the scheme. For example, an event called Who blocked you from his friend list? has already tricked over 165,000 people into signing-up, with a staggering 10.3 million users still debating whether to respond or not.”]

Source: https://grahamcluley.com/millions-facebook-users-invited-scam-events-spammers-exploit-social-network/

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