(UPDATED) You may come across an announcement like the following in the form of a Facebook status update or a forwarded email. Either way, it's false:
PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS NOTICE TO YOUR CONTACTS! In the coming days, you should be aware. Do not open any message with an attachment called: INVITATION FACEBOOK, regardless of who sent it. It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch that burns the whole hard disc C of your computer. This virus will be received from someone you had in your address book. If you receive a mail called: INVITATION FACEBOOK, though sent by a friend, DO NOT OPEN IT and DELETE IT. Post this on your wall PLEASE
If you're curious about where the misinformation came from, it's a rewording of a hoax older than Facebook itself. Read the details...
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I had trouble when I did that from who knows out of the regular guys I play with..but the pets pest thing should go down..no add on polls.like things that ends with- ;ing crap..I wasn`t there and deleted all incoming emails from those`s post..crap.anyway..I think ,I`m curtain I cought my Short-cut virus from castleville..Thats where I head first..then Petcity..My ISP did a malware and didn`t find nothing..that was weird..anyway by doing a back-up my pc is ok..but..I`m afraid of going back to facebook..not unless they post new on this latiest virus..I cant afford to be infected twice in one week..Even my norton crashed..my pc ok..now…sry to leave ya..dated 4-29/30 2012
I did think this was familiar and realised that the last invitation email came to nothing. I think its a way fro some one to glean email addresses for marketing purposes that’s what most of these send to everyone you know emails are about.
The first thing I do when I receive warnings from well meaning friends, is Google it, invariably it comes up as a hoax, never-the-less, should I receive a message on FB ( or anywhere else ) that is connected to the warning then I would just delete it without question.
I am sending this comment with fingers crossed that this isn’t just for marketing purposes !