Facebook Game Scam Targets 'Twilight' Fans

"Twilight" fans, beware. A new Facebook app scam is targeting enthusiasts of the wildly popular vampire series.

According to Sophos Security, scammers are spreading posts promoting a phony Facebook game based on the upcoming film "Twilight Breaking Dawn."

The Facebook posts read:

Play Twilight: Breaking Dawn
Be the first of your friends to play the awesome new Twilight game on Facebook!

A link following the text brings the user to what appears to be a page for the game. However, clicking the "Play Now" button will actually "clickjack" your Facebook account into "Liking" the spammy post and spreading the post to your friends' News Feeds.

Sophos reports that the scammed user will then be asked to "Allow" the app to access basic Facebook profile information and make wall posts. The user will also be taken to a survey page, which earns the scammer a commission.

If you've fallen victim to this latest Facebook scam, Sophos has created a video that will help you clean up your profile.

View a screenshot of the malicious "game" page, and avoid clicking on it if you come across it on Facebook.

LOOK: [via Sophos]

Comments

[jpilmer]

01:16 PM on 04/13/2011

Not a Twilight knockoff Facebook game, Family Village brings real social value to Facebook gaming. www.familyvillagegame.com

[Raymond Strand]

11:20 AM on 04/12/2011

Good riddance, Twilight has totally made women unreliable if Vampires were real. If there was a human/vampire war half the population would be turned into drooling school girls waiting for their pasty undead lovers.

[kintarius]

09:55 AM on 04/12/2011

Aren't you already getting scammed by being a fan of Twilight?

[deatrix]

08:21 AM on 04/12/2011

lool more vampire and facebook drama loove it :)))

[Maureen Mower]

04:40 PM on 04/11/2011

You can also get this via being "tagged" in a photo by one of your FB friends. That is how I got it this morning. I did click on the notification and viewed the photo, but then I removed my name from the tag list immediately and did not click on anything else.

I also went to the actual profile page of the person who "tagged" me to let them know what it was doing so they can deal with it. That is the second time in two days one of these scams has used photo tagging to drag me in - the other was for that stupid thing where you're supposed to see who is viewing your profile (I could care less). Did the same with that one as well (ie; remove the tag, then go to the person's real profile to let them know so they can deal with it).

[Joseph Aiello]

03:56 PM on 04/11/2011

I've seen this crap pop up a lot of my news feed in the last day or two. If people can not pay attention to what they are clicking on - maybe Facebook should rethink allowing everyone to join. Never had any of these problems when it was only college kids that were members. Everything was so much easier.

[Pearson Philpot]

03:55 PM on 04/11/2011

Hahahahahaha

[dperich]

03:54 PM on 04/11/2011

That sucks.....pardon the pun......LOL