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Facebook Scam: Whitney Houstons autopsy reveals a shocking secret that explains her death

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Whitney Houston died earlier this week, and it didn’t take more than a few days before the notorious Facebook scammers started taking advantage of the tragic news in order to lure people into clicking on their Facebook links.

The wording of this Facebook scam is as follows:
[video] – Whitney Houstons autopsy reveals a shocking secret that explains her death. – www.tmzdailynews10825.com – Breaking News: Coroners autopsy reports reveals a dark past and secret life which tragically led to Whitney Houstons death.

This is the wall post:
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Facebook Scam: Switch To Pink Facebook (Limited Time!)

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During 2011 there was a breast cancer awareness campaing on causes, they petitioned to turn Facebook’s design pink, instead of the normal blue design, for 1 whole week to raise awareness to breast cancer world-wide.

Numerous Facebook scammers have tried to benefit from this topic since then, and recently there has been a new wave of “Pink Facebook Scams”.

The wall post of the one we found is as follows:
Switch To Pink Facebook (Limited Time!) – fbookaddons.info – Say goodbye to the boring blue profile and say hello to the new pink profile!!

The wall post looks like this:
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Facebook Scam: Chuck Norris dies at age of 71! Not a Joke.

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Firstly, the man who brought us Walker Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris is alive. A link to a video that claiming to shed light on the supposed death of the action movie and series star at 71 years old has hit Facebook users hard with an epidemic-like survey scam.

 ”Chuck Norris isn’t dead, and the messages point to an all-too-familiar survey scam.” commented Senior technology consultant at Sophos, Graham Culley. (Sophos is an international developer and vendor of security software and hardware including anti-spyware, anti-virus & anti-spam)

The text of the wall post is as follows:
[video] Chuck Norris dies at age 71! Not a Joke. – www.worldnews77551.com – See the video to find out how he died. News today of Chuck Norris death at age 71 has been met with confusion and humour, but sadly it is true.

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Facebook Scam: wooow now I have seen how many hours I spend on Facebook

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Another Facebook Survey Scam is trending at the moment, more than 300,000 people has been lured into installing the rogue Facebook application and completed the surveys designed to make the scammers revenue. 300,000 is a very big number, and that goes to show how good a business these scams are for the people that are behind them, let’s say they get $0.10 per completed survey that’s $30,000 is a matter of days from this scam alone, and they have tons of scams running simultaneously.

The wording of this scam is the following:
wooow now I have seen how many hours I spend on Facebook…to find your time click here > > – on.fb.me/zn3Fvm

The wall post looks like this:
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Facebook Scam: THIS WEEK ONLY! $100 Applebee’s Gift Card Giveaway!

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Another Facebook scam has surfaced recently. Yet another Facebook scam that feeds of people’s desire to click things that appears to have something to do with free giftcards. If you haven’t learnt already, then everything that sounds too good to be true – well it probably is.

This scam is not a survey scam like most other scams we see on Facebook, this one is actually worse in the way that the end-goal for the scammers is to get a browser plugin installed on your computer. This can lead to all sorts of bad things happening, it could be a key-logger that would enable the scammers to access anything that you log into via your browser after the plugin is installed.

The wording of this scam reads as follows:
THIS WEEK ONLY! $100 Applebee’s Gift Card Giveaway! – www.applebees68316.com – Visit out site to get a complimentary $100 gift card and enjoy your favourites at any Applebees in the country. Have a great start to the new year!

The wallpost looks like this:
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Facebook Scam: The number one song when I was born was

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I have seen this wall post on many of my friends’ walls this past week, so I thought I would look into it and see what the buzz was about. It turns out that this is just another Facebook Survey Scam made in order for the scammers to make a profit on you spending time on completing surveys and clicking on sponsor offers. This scam is slightly different than most other in the way that it actually ends up doing what you expected it to do before clicking the link and starting the process. You DO end up seeing the #1 song when you were born, but to get there you must jump through hoops and help the scammers share their application and complete surveys to make them money.

This is the wall post text:
The number one song when I was born was – [your song here]
Find your Birthday Song Here: http://on.fb.me/itsmysong
What was the #1 song on the day you were born?

Here is what the wall post looks like:
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Facebook Scam: Get Dunkin Donut Gift Card for FREE! (limited time only)

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Beware of a lot of new Facebook Survey Scams popping up lately. The survey scams were flooding Facebook in the beginning and middle of 2011, but at the end of the year Facebook had seemed to get them under control. Until now it would appear, this week a number of new scam messages has popped up, here is one of them.

Scam Message:
Get Dunkin Donut Gift Card for FREE! (limited time only) – Dunkin Donut is currently giving away $100 gift cards to all facebook users!! – dunkindonutgiftcardnow1.blogspot.com

Here is what the wall post looks like:
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