You may well already be aware of this hoax, as described on the Sophos blog a couple of days ago. And hopefully, you’ll take with a pinch or three of salt any suggestion that Facebook is closing down because it’s ruined Big Brother Zuckerberg’s life and he doesn’t care about the money.
Richi Jennings has accumulated some more relevant – and sceptical – links and comments at IT Blogwatch.
David Harley CITP FBCS CISSP
ESET Senior Research Fellow
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[…] has been a series of hoaxes announcing that Facebook will be closing down (temporarily or for good), or deleting your account, or starting to charge its customers, and so on. Not to mention the […]
By: Facebook and the bonfire of the vanities « Check Chain Mail and Hoaxes on August 10, 2011
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