Thursday 6 February 2014

Facebook hoax: Facebook will not be accessible february 29 30 and 31



There is a hoax going around on Facebook that is tricking the users into believing that the Facebook website will be offline on February 29, 30 and 31. This is fake as the dates do not exist in the year 2014. 
There are multiple schemes going on that are tricking the users into believing that Facebook will shutdown on certain dates:
Example #1:
As shared on Facebook, Jan. 2, 2014:
FACEBOOK WILL BE CLOSED DOWN & NOT ACCESSIBLE ON FEB 29th, Feb 30th & Feb. 31st. SORRY !!!!!
Example #2:
As shared on Facebook, Feb. 7, 2013:
WARNING!
Facebook will be closed down for maintenance from February 29th to 31st!!. Many people will try to log in from February 29 to 31, just to find the site closed down for those days with no warning.... Tell your friends!!
Example #3:
As shared on Facebook, Feb. 8, 2013:
Attention !! Facebook sera fermé pour maintenance du 29 au 31 février. Faites passer à vos contacts pour qu'ils soient au courant!!!
Facebook celebrated their 10 years of existance with a application that allowed the users to create a video of their life on Facebook. Hackers picked up on this trend and made a fake page that tricked users to install malware. 
Here you can see a small list of the schemes we found on Facebook:

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