In other cases, scams like this have been used in the past to gain access to your Facebook profile and post messages under your name, helping the scammers spam out messages to others.
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Facebook has not rolled out the “Dislike” feature yet, but since the announcement, the social network has been surrounded with lots of hoopla.
Facebook’s “like” button is pretty popular but users have often asked for another button that will allow them to express their feelings of discontentment.
Nevertheless, scammers have leaped on the opportunity to use anticipation about the button to exploit users eagerly awaiting its introduction.
Sophos security researchers writing on Naked Security said that clicking on the links brought them to two different scam sites, “neither of which had anything to do with Facebook, or a Dislike button, and both of which wanted us to sign up by giving away personal information”.
While some people would certainly use the new feature to simply “downvote” a post, the major utilization of the “dislike” button would be to curtly express emotions like sympathy on a post where “liking” it doesn’t really feel emotionally appropriate. In a nutshell, they are nothing more than scams. By requiring that people share the page, the attackers are effectively getting them to do their bidding, spreading the ill intentioned or malicious links to their network of friends. “After all, Facebook itself just reminded us that it doesn’t have Dislike yet, but that if it gets one, it will be an official part of Facebook itself”.
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I mean, there are already so many posts out there asking readers to “like if you agree, comment if you disagree”.
