In the pantheon of fabled people whose stories are used to attract Facebook users to survey/contest/quiz apps ($9.99 billed to your cell phone), the guy who �killed his roommate aftre (sic) Playing Black Ops games in New York� has just joined the various women who killed themselves after their father/boyfriend/whoever posted something about them on FB.
We counted 55 of these in a 10 minute span, so, it�s in circulation.
Lovely.
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Of course you have to log in to Facebook.
And at this point you can see where this is going:
It uses your Facebook account to spam itself out to all your friends. At this point you are a vector.
Then it presents some lurid warnings:
And, bingo: �quiz� authentication:
And the sales pitch: one quiz, two clues a week for $9.99.
I�m not sure that anyone falling for this COULD buy a clue.
Tom Kelchner
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