Take this sight and win a free iPad ! Take this survey and get ahead a never - end alimentary paste pipe bowl ! Take this survey and get Facebook ’s Dislike button ! Wait , what ?
Whenever a young Cartesian product or servicing comes out , you could be sure that the cozenage artists will scamper out of the woodwork . One of their favorite tools are survey that never deliver on the product they ’re promising . AsSnopes reports , the non - existent Facebook Dislike clitoris is the a la mode in a long - established online custom of Take This Survey ™ cozenage . Con artists are now promising that if you take their sketch , you ’ll get specialearly accessto the Dislike button .
uncalled-for to say , do n’t bother clicking on any banner advertising or e-mail alert you might see about Facebook ’s new Dislike push . The link will likely take you to a Sir Frederick Handley Page that look a lot like Facebook , ask you to “ activate ” this newly introduced feature film .
Dislike scam screenshot via Graham Cluley
And yes , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did hint at the possible action of releasing something akin to the Dislike button at some pointin the near future tense . But it does n’t exist yet .
The button probably wo n’t even be a Dislike button at all , but rather some form of “ sorry to hear about the decease of your goldfish , bro ” button . Well , not that . I ’m sure Facebook ’s merchandising section will daydream up something more solemn and concise .
“ What [ users ] really need is the power to carry empathy , ” Zuckerberg saidlast hebdomad . “ Not every moment is a good moment . ” you could say that again , Zuck . you may say that again .
The internet carnival barkers enticing you with Take This Survey howls usually just want your personal selective information . They can then turn around and sell that info en masse shot to umbrageous company who ca n’t yield expensive information mining software . Other times , the Take This Survey cozenage is just about infecting your estimator .
FromSnopes :
Each of the links was a version of a typical societal media sight / sweepstakes scam , such as those that have used Kohl ’s , Costco , Home Depot , Lowe ’s , Kroger , Best Buy , Macy ’s , Olive Garden , Publix , Target , and Walmart as bait by which swindler calculate to collect personal information and page wish from societal media users ( never delivering on their initial lofty promises once the want selective information was collected from the marks ) .
Clicking on some suspect email link is more likely to get you loaded up with a steaming pile of malware than anything airless to a Dislike push . But tell me again about this never ending pasta bowl …
[ SnopesandGraham Cluely ]
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