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    Thumbs up Facebook scams

    If you spend a better part of your life living out of Facebook, rejoice. Facebook won't be closing on March 15 after all. Surprised? Read on ...

    More than one million people have already fallen for a hoax that claims that the popular social networking site will be shutting down on March 15.

    According to IT security firm Sophos, a bogus news story published by the "Weekly World News", said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had told reporters that "managing [Facebook] has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness."

    Some panic-stricken Facebook users and mischief-mongers spread the story far and wide across the internet in no time. Although Facebook debunked the hoax via its Twitter account late on Sunday, users still continue to pass the bogus messages onto their online friends.
    A number of Facebook users had earlier last week reported fallen prey to another viral scam -- My 1st St@atus -- which was designed to earn revenue for its perpetrators. Messages claiming to share the users' first ever Facebook status updates were being posted on users' walls by a rogue application.

    Typical posts read -- "My 1st St@tus was: '[random message]'. This was posted on [random date]. Find your 1st St@tus @ [LINK]". When users clicked on this link, which appeared to have been posted by a Facebook friend, they were taken to a rogue Facebook application.
    Read more: Facebook is not closing down on March 15 - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/internet/Facebook-is-not-closing-down-on-March-15/articleshow/7258265.cms#ixzz1Cbc07YJp

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    Thank you for sharing Bluedot gave me quite a laugh although if it where about this forum i probably would have acted differently,
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