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A fraud scam is spreading like a virus through the social network Facebook via a very trendy existing application which includes a false survey.

According to the Shopos company, messages, being published on users’ walls ask them to share the status upgrade of Facebook members following this pattern: My 1st St@tus was: ''ñmensaje aleatorioí''. This was posted on ñfecha aleatoriaí.

If users click on this link, which seems to have been sent by a Facebook friend, they are taken to a malicious application.

This application asks for the users'' permission to access their profile offering cyber criminals the opportunity to publish the same message on the affected account. Subsequently, users are taken to a web page that contains a survey.

Those who are behind the fraud then check the number of people that have completed the survey who, in some cases, have been asked to provide their mobile telephone number in order to register them to a service of high added cost.

Facebook users who have been infected should delete the reference to this fraud from their wall to avoid spreading it among their friends.