14 DAY TRIAL // Facebook scammers are tricking users into taking surveys by promising them an app that can simulate what their appearance would be twenty years from now.
According to Facecrooks, the spam messages associated with this latest scam read "Wow, how creepy, LOL i look scary as an old person! - http://bit.ly/[censored]" and share a page called "AGE yourself! See what you will look like in 20 years!"
Clicking on the link takes users to a page which displays the picture of a girl and how she would allegedly look 20 years into the future.
The images seem to have been copied from a real aging simulation service available at in20years.com that scammers deemed interesting enough to attract users.
A message on the rogue page instructs users to click on the image in order to begin the simulation process.
However, doing this will prompt a permissions dialog from an app called "OMG - How could this happen?" that wants access to post on people's walls in order to spam their friends.
The app's name suggests that it is a leftover from a different scam, which Facebook hasn't suspended yet. Scammers usually reuse any resources they can.
Of course, installing the app does not give people access to any service. Instead they are asked to complete one of several surveys as an anti-spam security check.
These surveys try to get people to expose their personal information, buy useless things or sign up for premium rate services billed on their mobile phones. Scammers earn a commission through affiliate marketing schemes each time a victim completes one of these deceptive offers.
Users who let themselves be tricked by this scam should go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites and remove any suspicious looking or unknown apps from that list. They should also go through their wall posts and remove any spam messages posted without their knowledge.