” Girl killed herself, after her dad posted this to her wall ! ” Facebook scam Returns [ Alert ]

A new Facebook app scam is spreading fast. Facebook users receive a message that looks quite tempting and when they click on the link they are taken to the self replicating trojan called “ Girl killed herself, after her dad posted this to her wall ! ”.

This is a virus going around again, If you see a message like ” GIRL WHO KILLED HERSELF OVER SOMETHING HER FATHER WROTE ON HER WALL ”  Do not open it, It is a virus and it will  not allow you to delete it. Please pass this to your friends before some one opens it.

This application requests quite a bit of permissions. Such as the ability to post to your wall, access your data at any time and manage your pages. If you clicked allow this application, you are giving it the ability to post to your personal profile wall and if you Administrate a Facebook page, also the ability to post to your Facebook pages wall.

The scam page is still online and was linked by over 50000 users in spite of it being reported to Facebook. If you experience victim to the scam, go to your wall, find the scam message posted there and click on the “remove” button. The advice: “don’t click random links offering suspiciously favourable things online“. Share this post to your friends also.

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