Facebook’s Growing Spam Problem
In the last few days I’ve noticed a regular spam problem from Facebook.
My notifications bar shows links from people I don’t know and am not friends with. They are inviting me to like a spam page – in this case “iPhone 5 testing” which leads to a multitude of pop-up windows and eventually pulls me off-site to another spam page which I’ve not bothered to click onto any further for fear of contracting malware-itis.
The issue with Facebook is:
- Non-Friends should not be able to randomly send you notifications – if there’s an easy way to shut this off I’ve not found it
- On the incoming notifications there should be a way to flag a USER as sending SPAM – the current default action if you try to click on the user icon is to actually send you to the spam the user sent
In order to block/report the user you must know to click “See All Notifications” and from there you can click the users link and block/report them.
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