Spam your Facebook friends with fake $25 iTunes offer

If your time isn't worth much, do take advantage of the free $25 iTunes gift card offer circulating Facebook. Clicking the link will lead you to a page compelling you to share the offer with all your friends, before moving on to a survey. What do you get -- other than perhaps a few dislikes from your social network? Nothing. It's a scam, blogs Graham Cluley, Sophos senior technology consultant.

The request to "share" the offer with Facebook friends should be dead giveaway the offer is fake. "You should, of course, always treat such requests with suspicion, but that hasn't stopped many people unwittingly help the scammers to spread their links far and wide across Facebook", Cluely warns.

What's the profit motive? There's always a profit motive. I was thinking identity theft, or something like that. But no-o-o! "The scammers earn commission for every survey they trick people into completing, and your chances of ever receiving an iTunes Giftcard are close to zero", he explains.

You've been warned.

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