(UPDATED) Be advised, a "clickjacking" scam purporting to link to a video showing a spider growing under somebody's skin is currently replicating on Facebook. There's no such video. Clicking on the link is a bad idea.
If you do click on it, you're presented with an age verification message containing a "Play" button, but if you click on "Play" all it does is cause the same message to be shared with every one of your Facebook friends before shunting you off to a survey page. The same thing will happen to your friends if they click on the link from your page. And so on.
Examples of the come-on:
Amazing how a spider can go under your skin This spider is brutal..
stillfb.in
WTF - There is a spider inside the skin of this girl, extremely painful !
O-M-G - Spider Grows Under Skin - Crazy!
troutl.info
Totally Crazy and just a little gross. But still Amazing!
Amazing! Spider is Growing Under Woman Skin
scaryspideomg.tumblr.com
WARNING: Sh0ck1ng Footage!
Una Araсa debajo de la piel. A spider under your skin!
www.youtube.com
Йl dice que era una araсa bajo la piel, їquй dices?.He says there was a spider under the skin what do you say?
The reason security experts have labeled it a scam is that the folks behind it are making a commission on every survey completed by Facebook users. Sweet, eh?
If the message appears on your wall, DON'T click on the link. DELETE the message so others won't.
Read more about it:
• A Spider Under the Skin? It's a Facebook Survey Scam
• OMG! A Spider Under the Skin! - Facebook Scam
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It never ceases to amaze me what people will do (illegally?) to make a buck. I bet lots of people will fall for this though
Are there any laws that prevent this kind of thing? If not, we really need to get going on it. I won’t hold my breath on it though.
laws dont prevent anything. stop being dumb.
Yes. You’re absolutely right. Of all of the country’s current issues, predicaments, debts, and WARS. This is the pressing issue. Let us all call our representatives in D.C. and get this to the top of the list. The possibilities of a facebook scam must not be permitted to continue. Now that I think about it we should take this all the way to the U.N.
It’s up to Facebook to start enforcing its terms of service to stop these apps and surveys from being used on their site. They have the ability but they don’t care.
laws will not protect against this sort of thing, intelligence will.
more laws are not the answer to everything.
Spiders are not the only topic used for this. There are bunches of videos out there with the same idea of scam behind it. It amazes me time and time again that even my friends fall for it. But there’s hope: after noticing them, some don’t click on these links anymore!
Yeah I’ve seen a ton of these to. When I see one I always put spam or hoax under it.
Now when you reply or comment, it does the same thing as clicking on it. These scam artists only get more sophisticated.
Hi folks,
Recently a Firefox add-on has been released which is designed to protect you against those scams while you’re Facebook.
So… you Firefox users are luckily
More info at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-phishing-protector/
Cheers!
Thankfully my anti-virus blocked it since it deteched malicious activity on the link
The problem is anti-virus cannot protect you from all those scripts being executed if they haven’t already spreaded enough to be flagged as malicious :-/
This reposted on my facebook page and I didn’t have to click anything except the link. They’re getting trickier.
Hey…. I know that it’s a scam but the pic on this article is of a real video…. I watched it on youtube instead. And it’s not a girl, it’s a guys arm. Just look up spider under skin on youtube if you want to see it.
What happens if you do click it?
What I meant was does anything happen to your account if you click the link? I have a friend who clicked it and need to let her know about it
Best bet of getting this stopped is to share this link on Facebook and ask everyone you can to repost it.
I unfortunately clicked on a friends post and it did take me to a “play” screen which I got out of without clicking on it, but it still posted onto my wall which I deleted right away. The thing is, what is the extent of this? Do I now have a virus? My firefox history was wiped out and had to sign in to yahoo & google.
I clicked on it, didn’t fill out the survey, and returned to my news feed to find that it had posted a rude comment under the pic as though it was from me.
I clicked on it without knowing. I then closed down the survey page. When I went to my profile, there was a link to the ‘vide’ automatically posted on there, but I deleted it. Will anything else bad happen now?! Or is that the end of it?
Just because you delete the video doesn’t mean it’s over. It will show up on the list of pages you like, and there’s no way to remove it unless you ask Facebook. I had to file a complaint with Facebook and they removed it after about a week.
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Somehow this stupid little scam has set itself up as an event which keeps occurring every day. I can cancel the event but then it schedules again the next day and sends invites to all my friends. My virus scan doesn’t find it. Any ideas?
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