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facebook warning!!!!

14 years ago

Facebook users do not open any link to a connection to join $4.99 a month fee for facebook users..it is a vicious, virus that takes you to a site that is abominable..don't go there. I just got notice of it and want to pass it along...Haven't even had time to check out snopes yet..

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petaloid
14 years ago
Thanks for the warning.
golfergrrl
14 years ago
Here's the real story.

Here is a link that might be useful: snopes says
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petaloid
14 years ago
So my understanding is that there will not really be a charge for Facebook use, and the links on that fake warning contain a virus.
neesie
14 years ago
Always check with snopes before passing along "information".
glenda_al
14 years ago
Why should you--Always check with snopes?????????
monica_pa Grieves
14 years ago
Glenda....because there are may clever hoaxes out there, and Snopes.com is the best way to check them out.

Another note on this....if you ever get a pop up box on a web site that has an ad or what looks like gibberish (but nothing to do with the page contents) and Continue or Cancel buttons - do NOT click on them.
Instead, to close it, click on the X in the upper right corner of the box.

A lot of clever thieves out there.
suzieque
14 years ago
Why always check Snopes you ask? Because Snopes will (usually) tell you whether the rumor (alert, warning, whatever) is true or false or somewhere in-between. Checking Snopes first tells you whether it is, in fact, something to be worried about or not. Why keep proliferating and getting people on alert if there's nothing to it? (Sort of like yelling "fire" in a crowded theater).

Check out the thread started a few days ago about "Why Don't People Check Snopes".

Suzieque
western_pa_luann
14 years ago
"Why keep proliferating and getting people on alert if there's nothing to it? (Sort of like yelling "fire" in a crowded theater). "

Exactly!
joyfulguy
14 years ago
Somewhat less potentially disastrous than yelling, "Fire!!" in a crowded theatre, which can cause nearly immediate death by trampling to quite a number of people.

Let's keep things in perspective: a pain in the ass isn't quite similar to lying in a coffin (even if one may have chosen to get burned after being put into it: then it's the worker at the crematorium that says, "Fire").

ole joyful

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