{"id":2365,"date":"2012-10-06T16:49:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T11:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2012-10-08T18:27:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T12:57:15","slug":"facebook-scam-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/facebook-scam-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Scam strikes again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever seen a message posted by any of your Facebook friends saying Facebook has released a new membership price grid and they are going to charge their users? If you so, do them and the other billion users of Facebook a favour -tell them that it&#8217;s all bogus.<\/p>\n<p>It is an old hoax that is being reused again. The Scam message says due to the upcoming profile changes, Facebook has released a new membership price grid, including gold, silver and bronze levels of membership. The message also claims, you can avoid paying by sharing the message with your facebook friends or else you will have to pay next time you logon to facebook.<\/p>\n<h3>Also Read:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/entenews\/facebook-a-medium-for-cyber-bullying\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook a medium for cyber bullying?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/mayank-sharma-used-facebook-to-retrieve-his-lost-memory\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mayank Sharma used Facebook to retrieve his lost memory<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately the helping and sharing mentality of the Facebook users are being exploited by some unknown scammers. The scam message first showed up in September last year.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>You can see the SCAM message below<\/strong><\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;FACEBOOK JUST RELEASED THEIR PRICE GRID FOR MEMBERSHIP. $9.99 PER MONTH FOR GOLD MEMBER SERVICES, $6.99 PER MONTH FOR SILVER MEMBER SERVICES, $3.99 PER MONTH FOR BRONZE MEMBER SERVICES, FREE IF YOU COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. WHEN YOU SIGN ON TOMORROW MORNING YOU WILL BE PROMPTED FOR PAYMENT. IT IS OFFICIAL IT WAS EVEN ON THE NEWS. FACEBOOK WILL START CHARGING DUE TO THE NEW PROFILE CHANGES. IF YOU COPY THIS ON YOUR WALL YOUR ICON WILL TURN BLUE AND FACEBOOK WILL BE FREE FOR YOU. PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON\u2026<em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Why this is a Fake Message?<\/h4>\n<p>Take a look at the Facebook\u2019s home page\u00a0before you log in. The page says \u201cIt\u2019s free and always will be.\u201d Facebook also says the same on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/133348616740027\/\" target=\"_blank\">Help Centre<\/a>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWe will always keep Facebook a free service for everyone.\u201d\u00a0Another thing that hints the message is fake is that it says, your icon will turn blue once you share the message with your friends. But no matter how many times you share, your icon won\u2019t change its colour.<\/p>\n<p>The company may not be doing well at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/sep\/11\/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-stock-market-disappointing\" target=\"_blank\">stock market<\/a>. But facebook is still making billions of dollars every year and charging its users for their service is definitely a business suicide.<\/p>\n<p>A word of caution &#8211; Never trusts everything you read on the internet. Also don\u2019t blindly copy and paste such warnings, just because your friend did. Your intentions are good but it\u2019s helping the scam to go viral on the social network, fooling more people.<\/p>\n<p>Latest Update: &#8220;We have no plans to charge for Facebook \u00a0and It\u2019s free and always will be.\u201d Facebook confirmed with the Thenextweb.com. Now its time to share this hoax news with your friends. Don&#8217;t fall into these scams. Stay secure.<\/p>\n<p>Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EnteCity\" target=\"_blank\">EnteCity.com facebook page<\/a> and Stay updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever seen a message posted by any of your Facebook friends saying Facebook has released a new membership price grid and they are going to charge their users? If you so, do them and the other billion users of Facebook a favour -tell them that it&#8217;s all bogus. It is an old hoax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,5],"tags":[458,80],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facebook","category-technology","tag-facebook","tag-internet-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}