Reblogs for 20100828

Some clever scam­mers have launched a click­jack­ing attack which results in vis­i­tors to a site which dis­plays pho­tos of “smok­ing hot bar­tenders” to “Like” the site with­out their knowl­edge. It’s an inter­est­ing scam and the peo­ple behind it are now try­ing to gen­er­ate some money from the site by launch­ing the stan­dard scam quizzes which get users to pay money and com­plete offers.

Yes­ter­day, many users saw their friends lik­ing a page that said “:|:|:|:|:| Smok­ing Hot Bar­tenders :|:|:|:|”, as described Simon Mosk. Once clicked, users were prompted with the site pic­tured below.

On this site, if a user clicked any­where, some­thing stat­ing that they “Liked” the Smok­ing Hot Bar­tenders showed up in their pro­file. It was a viral cam­paign which spread across thou­sands of users, how­ever the scam­mers appear to now be attempt­ing to mon­e­tize that traf­fic with quizzes. The bot­tom line is this: if you see this show up in your friend’s feed, don’t click the link.

There are plenty of other places to find pho­tos of “hot bar­tenders” on the inter­net, so there’s really no need to visit this one!