Facebook scammers are tricking users into taking surveys by promising them an app that can simulate what their appearance would be 20 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[colon]//bit[dot]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 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.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Aging-Simulation-Scam-Hits-Facebook-Users-%20177371.shtml
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