It seems that scams and hoaxes really are part of a typical Facebook day. After previous reports of a privacy notice post hoax spreading on the social networking website, another type of scamming act is currently making the website’s rounds, where it has been reported that at least 5,000 computers have been infected with a backdoor trojan.
Bogdan Botezatu of HotforSecurity reports that cyber criminals have created a malicious tagging scam, that starts with an alleged “video,” in which 20 friends are tagged in. Looking at the “video” in the Facebook post, it displays a goo.gl host, which is a URL shortening service, and not a video hosting website, which makes the post very suspicious.
