Comments on: Facebook Colon Cleansing spam via Mobile Web

By: Cris

Cris — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:37:17 +0000

I had a similar problem, but the message was related to making money at home. The funny thing is that I got a text message on my iPhone at 6:30 AM yesterday morning that had the same basic text. At around 10 am I noticed that my Facebook status said something similar. I deleted it without thinking to look and see if I received the text message before or after the matching status update occurred. I don’t know if / how those two things are related, but it was definitely strange. I’d like to think that I’m too smart to fall for a phishing scam and I don’t recall logging into anything unusual on my PC. My PC has a cookie so that I don’t need to enter my Facebook username and password through Firefox, but my Internet Explorer has been acting strangely for months though. (when I shut down my PC each night, it insists there are updates to be done).

By: Facebook Status/Wall Hack Making the Rounds

Facebook Status/Wall Hack Making the Rounds — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:59:51 +0000

[...] users, including several of my friends, have recently been caught off-guard by strange Status updates and Wall posts, many of them related to weight-loss plans, colon-cleansing products, and other website/product [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:43:54 +0000

Sounds like this is related to mobile apps. Only happened since I have enabled the mobile app for my Android (Htc Magic). Not convinced that this one is user error and reckon there is some bug being exploited in Facebook apps.

By: annoyed

annoyed — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:24:16 +0000

This happened to me at 2:30am EST – I woke up to my iPhone dinging because of new emails I received. There were 10 new wall posts from myself and they were the email notifications. I then logged into FB on my Mac and roughly the first 50-100 of my friends received the same wall post. Because I was awake and didn’t want my friends to click on those I proceeded to remove those wall posts from each and every one of my friends. I don’t know how or when I was a victim of this phishing scam…is there something wrong with my iPhone FB app?

By: seperlinky

seperlinky — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:28:55 +0000

Now it says something like -> Remember to clean your colon out :) facebookhealth4.com

By: Shadow

Shadow — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:22:44 +0000

Looks like it’s time for Round 2…

xxx made $(variable amount) today working online! u guys have to check out WorkHomeDream.net to get started too!
24 minutes ago via Mobile Web · Comment · Like

I wonder if my friend actually changed her password…

By: Twitch2021

Twitch2021 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:59:41 +0000

I just wanted to mention that the Order Form image posted in this article is identical to one I’ve encountered via spam on Craigslist. When responding to a personal ad spammers try to redirect respondents to a bogus website (it’s different all the time) that they claim is an adult dating site and that they use it to verify that the people they’re meeting aren’t “sexual predators” or whatever. The “Sign up” page looks exactly like the order form above, complete with unlinked images to prove security.

By: Nida

Nida — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:20:31 +0000

My facebook status got updated by something similar (PurgeColon.net). Changed my password, but how can we prevent this from happening again?

By: sebish

sebish — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:46:04 +0000

I’m getting the same thing from my phone, it seem to pair up with when I installed a custom WebMo Distribution (From XDA Developers) I put on to my phone.

By: Esau

Esau — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:03:11 +0000

I dunno, I use no apps in my facebook, click only friends pages & still I had this happen and while I was using facebook even – after seeing the update I did change my password, both on facebook & the email I used to register, then after doing that I changed the email address tied to my facebook account (created a gmail just for it) just in case.

Still, I have never done one of those silly polls, added any apps or 3rd party addons. I’d like to know how they got into my account. I really only use it once or twice a week as it is, but now I am stopping by daily to see if anything has changed.