Why are my friends on Facebook sending me spam messages on my wall?

[B3]

I don't think it is from them...

[evaohell]

We got this at work...it's a virus that is using a user's contacts list to send out emails with attachments that have a virus in them. Make sure you confirm with whoever supposedly sent th email before opening.

check with McAfee, if you use it. My company is working with them to come up with a new dat file to clean it.

[I Love My Kitties]

Its not, thousands of people have been hacked and are posting usualy the same thing on other people's walls, such as: hey, did you know your profile pic is on this site....

Ignore it, dont go to the site. Your friend will get their account back.

[latrrobe]

send them an email or contact them another way if you can to see if they're aware of the issue and if not, they'll probably be grateful you did so they can change their password. then make sure you delete whatever they wrote on your wall especially if they included any URLs.

[Md]

<<Did you know that your pics are all over Kchangspace.com (or other sites)?>> That's a message which many MySpace and facebook users have gotten, supposedly from either a relative or a close friend - so far I've seen reports on YA from:

wayius.com, atomipad.com, azurebuzz.com, azurezoom.com, bubbleserve.com, coralpad.com, crimsonopia.com, deesphere.com, dynatoken.com, flapset.com, gabbleset .com, getemtoken.com, getemset.com, gingersphere.com, hazelpad.com, heycode.com, iconnik.com, phototradingspot.info, scrality.com, snapnik.com, tradepicsnow.com, ubzunit.com, wackset.com, wackstate.com, wareate.com

and a couple of others. When you follow the link included in the mail, you'll be led to a site which asks you for personal infos like name, mail account, passwords - you get the picture? Right, the site which supposedly has your pictures displayed, never had them, it doesn't even exist! The whole thing is just a phishing scam! And when you ask your contact, you'll find that he never send you the mail! After doing a lot of research, I found that a single guy is behind half of the addresses listed above. I suggest to forward such a message to the links below:

phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com
http://www.spamcop.net/
Federal Trade Commission spam@uce.gov
Treasury Department 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/re... - this site contains links for various countries

Here's how to do the forwarding bit: click the crtl key and at the same time click the "forward" button to forward a message as an attachment, mac users should click the "apple" key and click "forward" simultaneously.

To read more about scams go to the links below.
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/4337
http://www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/intern...

To look up possible scams, phishing mails and sites illegally trying to obtain your private data, visit: http://www.419legal.org/




MD