Recently Skype and Facebook have gotten together to bring you video calling, but now scammers  want in on the callabo between Facebook and Skype into tricking Facebook users and spamming all of your Facebook friends.  By using the new feature to draw you.

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There is a legit way to sign up for the video calling on Facebook, in which users are asked to download a program the offical Facebook Video Calling page, and then a new window will pop up asking the user to change and  configure some Flash settings.  When some users try to download the service it notifies them that “video calling will be available soon, please check back later.”

Thats when the scam is set in motion, when the user gets a post on their wall, which says Enable video calls.  Do not click the option, it redirects the user to Naked Security.


 

“If you do click on that bogus message, it asks for access to your basic information, wants to post to your wall, to access your posts in your newsfeed and access your data at any time”.

“What does it do then for the user. It doesn’t let you video chat at all, but simply tries to get you to fill out surveys so its evil creators can collect referral fees. Worse, it exposes your friends to the same trick.”