The community forum on Facebook's Help Center has become overrun by spammers, making the self-help support community effectively useless.
The spam messages, which at the time of writing are claiming to offer ways to watch live streaming video of American football games, appear to have been posted by bogus or compromised Facebook accounts.
Clicking on the links typically takes you to a webpage which asks you to hand over your email address, claiming that you will be sent a program that will allow you to watch live streaming video of football games. The potentials for abuse or malicious attack are obvious - and we would recommend that no users click on the links.
The alarm was first raised about the spam attack by the
unofficial Facebook privacy and security blog. Hours later, new spam messages are still appearing on the Facebook Help Center.
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