Facebook "likejacking" scams trick thousands of users

Hundreds of thousands of Facebook users are
falling for various scams being perpetrated
because of the social networking giant's new
"Like" APIs that allow members to "like" any
participating Website or any subpage of it.
The simple basis of the scam is a
script that interprets clicks on any part
of a Webpage into clicks on a particular
hidden link, i.e. one that triggers the "like"
functionality and thereby posts to that

person's wall and spams all his/her friends' local news incidents, and global events such
news feeds. The pages have funny titles such
as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and of
as "Funniest passport rejection ever", "The course the promise of pornography.
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Facebook users will have to manually
From School." and "This Girl Has An remove these posts from their walls, delete
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Out!" Other things used to tempt users into Likes and Interests section on their profiles,
clicking are references to popular movies,