Recently there was a new scam released on Facebook. Users of this social network are duped into spreading spam. The creators of this scam are using the interest of the new iPhone 5. The scam starts when someone from your group of friends comments on a link in a post that leads to a news article about iPhone 5 at a website "greatlakesnews.info". If you click on this link you are redirected to different website which will show a captcha window. When you click verify, a message on you Facebook wall will notify all your friend that you have commented on this and providing them with the misleading iPhone 5 link. After your friend clicks on this link they are taken to a survey which is basically marketing, and the creators of this scam are making money of it. This type of attack is known as "clickjacking".
Don't click on this post.
Use only the popular, well established news sources. Facebook suggests not click on strange links even if they are from friends would cut out many of the legitimate links people share on Facebook.
source:macrisk.net/mac-security-news/17-first-exposure-iphone-5-facebook-scam
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