Today alert reader Matthew drew out attention to this one. It’s yet one more Facebook application scams: “My total Facebook views are…” It’s pretty good social engineeering. Who wouldn’t want to know how many people have viewed their Facebook profile?
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If you search for it on Openbook, it’s obvious that this is a hard-coded number in the message that is being spammed out. The choices are:
3187
4353
5714
6126
8578
9821
And, of course it wants to spam itself out from your account:
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It’s another affiliate scam to the same tired list. Obviously it’s from someone who is not a native speaker of English judging by the grammar.
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There is more than one of these running.
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In this one, we checked the source code and found a URL that showed you what was behind the “verification” screen. So, if you signed up for one of the services advertised and spent some money, this is what you would get:
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Looking in the source code you can figure out how they arrived at the 384 figure: a little piece of JavaScript provides you with a random number less than 7,000.
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Thanks Matthew.
Tom Kelchner