Day by day, thousands of Facebook users are being assaulted by a nasty Facebook worm that forces you to “like” a Facebook page. Then, it automatically spreads like wildfire.worm through a user’s wall. By employing a clickjacking trick that forces users to proliferate it, a new Facebook scam is appeared now having the same older theme. Now, thousands of walls post a page having the title “Shocking! This girl killed herself after her dad posted this photo.”

The scammers have discovered a way to exploit the “Like” button via Javascript as per SocialToo’s Jesse Stay and are using it to oblige users to like the page, thus spreading it unintentionally through postings on Facebook walls. This resulted in many of wall posts for a page entitled “Shocking! This girl killed herself after her dad posted this photo.” By clicking on this link, the worm is further spread. So, do not click any of these links or go to this Facebook page.

This is not the first time incidence of such an exploit. However, a lot of people have been affected by this one according to Facebook Search. So, be careful all users of facebook, ignore but mark this link ‘This girl killed herself after her dad posted this photo’.

On opening, the page displays a Facebook-like alert box informing visitors that "The content you are about to view may be inappropriate for some users. It may contain shocking graphics, nudity or disrespect other individuals."

By clicking on the "Confirm" button, users will go to another dialog box that will ask them to verify that they aren't bots. This includes clicking three buttons, numbered 1, 2 and 3, in a particular order. Actually, these buttons are clickjacked and pressing them will really post the link on their walls without any confirmation.

The practice of hiding buttons by making them transparent and positioning them over innocent-looking page elements is referred as clickjacking or user interface redressing. By this, attackers hijack a user's mouse click and then use this to perform an unintentional and potentially malicious action.

As the result, users will be faced by a page where they are asked to participate in one of several surveys in order to access the fascinating content. These surveys try to sign-up people to premium rate services and the scammers get a hefty commission for every time they succeed.

The rogue page is still online and was linked by over 2,200 users in spite of it being reported to Facebook. If you experience victim to the scam, go to your wall, find the rogue spam message posted there and click on the "remove" button.

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