Monday, May 3, 2010

Does a Facebook group reveal Disney’s most shocking hidden message?

No... However the pursuit has led to the development of suspicious pages on Facebook. Sophos, warned that at the time of writing, over a million facebook users have already become fans of these pages.

This is a warning for everyone who might be lured into joining a Facebook group to learn about Disney’s Most Shocking Hidden Messages.

After you “like or become a fan” of the groups, it requires you spam your friends to see the “hidden message.”

Users who completed the series of steps required to reveal Disney’s most shocking hidden message report that the endgame is to navigate you to virus-laden survey sites. A virus expert at Sophos confirms the malware link and urges Facebook users to avoid the fan page like the plague.

Is the temptation of finding out Disney’s dirty secrets too great? Snopes has an entire page devoted to many Disney legends here.