I clicked on that link too.. I was about to become another victim of that scam.. I show next page as below..
It's Facebook Birthday.. !! I wasn't knowing that.. there is not any official facebook link.. but I continue with next page.. To get Tshirt click here.. I clicked..
see the page carefully.. when does facebook start to put google ads? :-) lolz.. something weird.. something scam.. let's google it.. :-)
http://techpp.com saying
"These Facebook scams hardly ever fail to amuse me. I say this for two major reasons. One, there are always enough gullible users, no matter how many scams have embarrassed them and two, Facebook hasn’t really found out a way to tackle these spammers. Tackling might be far fetched, I doubt if they even have an intent to keep off these spammers. Well, the biggest Facebook scam underway right now is about Free Facebook T-shirts and I’m seeing a lot of not-so-gullible users getting trapped this time around."
Another site saying there are two scams.. another pic with facebook tshirt..
Uffo.. this pic made 80% of facebook users to click on it.. nice way..
Hacker attacks targeting Facebook are endless. The most recent one proved that scammers have enough of imagination to create more and more scams with different subjects. You never knew that you have a secret mobile e-mail address? Well, you can now learn about it via the legitimate Facebook page or via a special video, created by hackers in order to make it easier to steal your data.
A Facebook T-shirt seemed like a big enough reason for users to visit an especially created by hackers web page, that claimed to be celebrating Facebook's 7th birthday. With the tricky comment "WOW!! Got a free Facebook T-SHIRT :)). Unpacking it now. Get it here : [link]", scammers have managed to attract the attention of Facebook lovers. To make it even more luring, they stated that there 1.9 million official Facebook T-shirts - enough for the fastest Facebook users.
The procedure of claiming a T-shirts is the following: users first have to verify they have got a Facebook account.
Then the reason for the attack becomes clear - you are prompted to visit Facebook Mobile and copy (then paste) your SECRET mobile e-mail address. This is where you should stop and think, because this address, if revealed to others, can be used to write status posts, upload photos and videos - all that on your own page and on your behalf!
That is the reason why scammers need your address - to abuse your account. To make things look even more legitimate, and to help you out giving them your secret data, hackers have been bold enough to create a YouTube video with instructions of where exactly your secret mobile e-mail address is and how to fill it in in their form.
In this scam, cyber criminals have been clever enough to take advantage of the fact that a lot of users do not know what the secret mobile e-mail address is, how to use it and why they need to keep it secret. If you have become a victim of the Facebook's 7th Birthday Celebration scam, please change your Facebook Mobile upload e-mail address by following these steps:
Now the main thing: Friends whose profile has now infected with "Free Facebook t-shirt" Scam,
To fix this,
1. Go to http://www.facebook.com/mobile/?v=photos
2. click on "Send me my upload email" which will open one dialog.
3. In this dialog box click on the "refresh your upload email" link in the bottom.
Please note that you can refresh this email address only a limited number of times.
Also go to
http://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications
and delete all unwanted applications. Keep safe :)
This threat might have not reached you, however, keep in mind that such threats appear constantly and the next bait might be luring enough for you to make you click. It stands to reason that should be extremely cautious when you are prompted to give away your account information - of all sorts.
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