{"id":12244,"date":"2010-08-18T16:31:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/yet-another-facebook-scam\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:11:19","slug":"yet-another-facebook-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/yet-another-facebook-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Facebook Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shouldn&#8217;t people have learned by now?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that sounds bit harsh, but I am beginning to think that if people fall for the latest Facebook scam &#8211; a brand-new <strong>dislike button<\/strong> &#8211; they only have themselves to blame. Luckily this time users who fell for the trick got nothing worse than an unwanted application that could be easily removed &#8211; oh, and a dose of <strong>public humiliation<\/strong>, since the fact they had fallen for the scam showed up in their friends&#8217; news feed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/blogs\/gc\/g\/2010\/08\/16\/facebook-dislike-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/08\/18-08-2010-16-33-31.png\" alt=\"18-08-2010-16-33-31.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even though we live in a technologically advanced world, there&#8217;s some pretty old-school advice that still works well &#8211; if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Free iPads? A dislike button? A hippo being eaten by a rabid mongoose? Keep dreaming!<\/p>\n<p>Equally, if your Harvard-educated aunt (or indeed a scam-prone friend) suddenly starts posting things entitled &#8220;OMG WTF BBQ , watch dis seriously cool video!!&#8221; accompanied by a link, alarm bells should start to ring. The bottom line? If you want an iPad, start saving. If you want a dislike button, check out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/social-plus-firefox.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Plus!<\/a> <\/strong>And if you want a rabid mongoose? Well, there&#8217;s not a whole lot OnSoftware can do for you. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/blogs\/gc\/g\/2010\/08\/16\/facebook-dislike-button-scam-spreads-virally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Graham Cluley&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shouldn&#8217;t people have learned by now? Maybe that sounds bit harsh, but I am beginning to think that if people fall for the latest Facebook scam &#8211; a brand-new dislike button &#8211; they only have themselves to blame. Luckily this time users who fell for the trick got nothing worse than an unwanted application that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/yet-another-facebook-scam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yet Another Facebook Scam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-12244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334798,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244\/revisions\/334798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12244"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=12244"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=12244"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=12244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}