New Facebook scam uses age progression as a lure

Have you gotten a Facebook Chat message that links to a site that purports to show you an age-progression of how you’ll look in 20 years? It could be a scam.

We got word late Friday about this latest scam, which, judging from comments posted by Facebook users, may be spreading via both Facebook Chat and wall posts. The message users are receiving is as follows:

“haha did you see this yet? it’s pretty funny… see what you look like 20 years older, mine is HILARIOUS 🙂 [link redacted] whoops sorry meant to send that to someone else :P”

When you click the link in the message, it’ll apparently post the scam message to your wall or send it to friends via Facebook Chat, thus spreading the worm. It’s hard to say for sure if this latest scam is collecting personal information, but you should assume that your account has been compromised, especially if another site asks you for your Facebook login information.

Protect Yourself

First and foremost, you should not click any links that seem even remotely suspicious, even if they’re from people you know and trust. If you did click on a malicious link, however, you should change your Facebook password immediately. If you use the same password you use for Facebook for other sites (say, your Ebay account), you should change that too to be safe (in general, you shouldn’t use the same password for multiple sites).