Top 10 Most Dangerous and Spamiest Facebook Pages – January 11, 2011

We are continuing with our weekly “Top 10” lists of the most dangerous and spamiest Facebook Pages.  If you would like to read how we come up with the lists, check out our initial post here but here is how we define each category…

Most Dangerous Category: This category could be a post or comment containing a dangerous link.  These links can lead to malware, phishing, or suspicious/dangerous Facebook applications that gather personal information and use people’s accounts for spam.

Spamiest Category: The spam noted could be Wall spam or comment spam.  All the spam messages included in the tally contain at least one URL and have been posted multiple times across different pages and post comments.

Here are this week’s Top 10 lists:

Most Dangerous

Rank	Last Week’s Ranking	Facebook Page	Threat Count	Last Week’s Threat Count
1	5	Minecraft	1053	180
2	1	Machinima.com	735	663
3	6	EL SECRETO DE LOS SIMPSONS	211	165
4	4	Farmville	181	189
5	3	Xbox Daily News	102	239
6	—	Keri Hilson	90	—
7	10	FrontierVille	90	97
8	20	Don Omar	88	37
9	12	The Game	86	78
10	25	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	64	29

Spamiest

Rank	Last Week’s Ranking	Facebook Page	Threat Count	Last Week’s Spam Count
1	3	FC Barcelona	1353	890
2	4	Cristiano Ronaldo	1038	878
3	2	Ninja Saga	1003	963
4	47	Shakira	886	118
5	5	Justin Beiber	845	661
6	6	Michael Jackson	816	640
7	16	Lil Wayne	677	342
8	11	Hotel City	608	443
9	9	Avril Lavigne	561	485
10	24	YO SOY DE VENEZUELA	554	204

A few notes about this week’s list:

The targeting of pages using human spam continues this week.  Overall, every week the same pages are repeatedly earning a spot on the lists.  As usual, stay vigilant of any comment and links on all Facebook Pages.

Human Spam

A popular and heavily pushed scam this week focuses on using people to propagate the spam.  The tactic results from scammers trying to get around the normal spam blockers.  What better way to spread spam than using human subjects?

The bait is usually some free in-game cash or some other unfair advantage in popular Facebook games.  We have seen many examples of these promises across the social games.

Here is one promising “Free Farmville Cash”:

The way the scam works is they promise to deliver something that they obviously cannot. In exchange, they claim, all you need to do is: 1. like their page, 2. share it, and 3. spam some message (almost always with a link back to the site) to some arbitrary amount of pages.

Like this:

Of course the end result of all this is you don’t get what was promised, and the spammer now has you broadcasting his garbage everywhere.

Here are some more examples:

This one targets Minecraft:

Keep in mind that there are a great deal more of these out there using all sorts of bait. The base scam is the same though, trying to get regular Facebook users to do the spamming for them.

Top 10 Dangerous and Spamiest Pages – January 4, 2011

We are continuing with our weekly “Top 10” lists of the most dangerous and spamiest Facebook Pages.  If you would like to read how we come up with the lists, check out our initial post here but here is how we define each category…

Most Dangerous Category: This category could be a post or comment containing a dangerous link.  These links can lead to malware, phishing, or suspicious/dangerous Facebook applications that gather personal information and use people’s accounts for spam.

Spamiest Category: The spam noted could be Wall spam or comment spam.  All the spam messages included in the tally contain at least one URL and have been posted multiple times across different pages and post comments.

Here are this week’s Top 10 lists:

Most Dangerous

Rank	Last Week’s Ranking	Facebook Page	Threat Count	Last Week’s Threat Count
1	3	Machinima.com	663	296
2	47	Ninja Saja	305	32
3	4	Xbox Daily News	239	230
4	5	Farmville	189	208
5	—	Minecraft	180	—
6	2	EL SECRETO DE LOS SIMPSONS	165	493
7	—	Xbox UK	141	—
8	—	Madden NFL Superstars	122	—
9	68	Galatasaray ASiKlarl	110	25
10	30	FrontierVille	97	41

Spamiest

Rank	Last Week’s Ranking	Facebook Page	Threat Count	Last Week’s Spam Count
1	—	MYX Philippines	1246	—
2	5	Ninja Saga	963	1018
3	—	FC Barcelona	890	—
4	8	Cristiano Ronaldo	878	783
5	19	Justin Beiber	661	542
6	13	Michael Jackson	640	687
7	16	BRAAAINS	595	559
8	28	Country Story	594	342
9	—	Avril Lavigne	485	—
10	39	ME GUSTA LA CERVEZA	455	269

A few notes about this week’s list:

Looking at the Dangerous list, we are seeing a lot of video game related scams.  Those specific scams focus on offerings of free points or game cash.  As every week, we see a few social games (those played through the Facebook platform) on the list.

The Spamiest list contains a hodge podge of pages from sports to musical artists to social games.  Remember the spam usually appears on wall comments.