New Facebook Groups Spam Exploit

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I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug...but with the way new Facebook groups work, you can add anyone on your friends list to the group, and they instantly become members of the group, without them having to confirm their membership or do anything.

This may mean they get notifications from the group without actually agreeing to anything.

I made a sample group to try this out:

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Let's see how many people we can add to this group without their consent.
 


That's intereting. Today when I looged on to Facebook I had a poll from FB asking how often I recieved spam in my news feeds. I answered, but they didnt show results. I guess they are doing internal polling.

Anyway, I thought getting spam via news feeds was a little wierd. I have not experienced this, but I dont join all those viral "titled" groups everyone else joins.
 
This is actually a lot bigger than most of us may think as of now. You can make groups for names already in use. I made groups for NAMBLA, China, GOP, Obama, WalMart, NYSE, NASDAQ, FEMA, IRS, Google, Microsoft, etc...

Obviously if someone were to oh I dunno, get their respective group uber popular in a short period of time, it has the power to influence a very good or worse, a very negative public relations scare for the company, government, etc that the group is named after.

For example:

If you were to make a group named AT&T and decided to make a few "official" Facebook spokesperson accounts to add to the fun, you could essentially launch a campaign offering FREE WIRELESS SERVICE FOR EVERYONE DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER. -- Granted to many of us this would seem pretty absurd. I'd like to think we're savvy enough to pick up on it, however, seeing as how crowd manipulation and influence over the interwebz is SOOOOOOO easy already, plus tack on this as a social parody of sorts, and poof, you have yourself a publicity nightmare on a scale that would be spreading far more rapidly than any BP oil spill ever could. If only Bernays were still alive, he'd be having a field day with this for sure.

It may not be an amazing way to make money, but damage wise, holy fuck.
 
Can't wait till someone gets one of those JS things that auto adds all friends, that auto adds all friends, that auto adds all friends...
 
Doesn't appear to be any control over who can post nor a messaging option....

Not even a profile page notification on join.
 
Jon said:
This is actually a lot bigger than most of us may think as of now. You can make groups for names already in use. I made groups for NAMBLA, China, GOP, Obama, WalMart, NYSE, NASDAQ, FEMA, IRS, Google, Microsoft, etc...

Obviously if someone were to oh I dunno, get their respective group uber popular in a short period of time, it has the power to influence a very good or worse, a very negative public relations scare for the company, government, etc that the group is named after.

For example:

If you were to make a group named AT&T and decided to make a few "official" Facebook spokesperson accounts to add to the fun, you could essentially launch a campaign offering FREE WIRELESS SERVICE FOR EVERYONE DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER. -- Granted to many of us this would seem pretty absurd. I'd like to think we're savvy enough to pick up on it, however, seeing as how crowd manipulation and influence over the interwebz is SOOOOOOO easy already, plus tack on this as a social parody of sorts, and poof, you have yourself a publicity nightmare on a scale that would be spreading far more rapidly than any BP oil spill ever could. If only Bernays were still alive, he'd be having a field day with this for sure.

It may not be an amazing way to make money, but damage wise, holy fuck.
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yea I heard not too long ago that some dude was doing this for "Free iPad events" and made a killing pushing to ipad email and zip submits
 
All it takes is a cunt from BHW to look at this thread and make 500 threads on BHW about it just to get thanks and +rep and then every fucking person in Asia will be making groups. Good job man
 
funny how, although it's getting better, people expect the internet/sites to work flawlessly. i wonder how many people will sue google for leading them into a construction zone

"a construction worker assaulted me for not wearing a hard hat but google said this was the correct route. suing for emotional damages"
 
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