Bieberwow.info is a spam/scam

This is an alert blog post. If you encounter any link containing bieberwow.info please don't click it. It is a scam/spam. Details are below.

Site of activity: Facebook.

Mode of Action : Likejacking ( making you 'like' a page without your direct consent).

Description : Posts a fake video in the news feed of the victim with a caption 'OMG - I can't believe Justin Bieber did this to a girl'. If you are a friend of the victim it will appear in your feed too. If any one clicks to view this video they will be redirected to a fake 'Security check' page which is specially designed as a look alike of Facebook for like-jacking.
The security check asks you to add up 2 and 3 and enter the result in an answer box. If you click on the answer box while being logged in to Facebook, congrats, you are clickjacked. A new news feed item will be posted in facebook on behalf of you with the same fake video and fake links.
So far there are no news of any private information being stolen by this spam.
Here is a screen-shot of the page  at bieberwow.info

You can see that the buttons look just as in Facebook.
What to do if you are like-jacked:  Just remove the post from your news feed. This way you will be rendered non-contagious.

Prevention : The spam can work only if you click the fake page while being logged into facebook. If you have already logged out, you are safe. Do not click any link that shows bieberwow.info in the target. Also turning off the javascript might help. Sorry that I am not a techie to say the last one for sure.

History: This is the rebirth of a previous click-jacking attempt using Justin Bieber's name. The first attempt was titled 'I can't believe a girl did this to Justin Bieber'. It affected about 20000 facebook users before being contained by facebook staff. I am not sure about the involvement of bieberwow.info site in the previous attack. But I think the redirect was to a different site.

A Nokia device with 800 x 600 resolution ?

Today afternoon while I was going through the stats of this blog on Statcounter, I noticed a visitor from USA used a Nokia device with Symbian OS and 800 x 600 resolution to access the data.

I remember reading a post earlier somewhere about the inability of Symbian OS to handle resolutions above 640 x360. Nokia N900 has a resolution of 800 x 480 but thats Maemo not symbian. I also read about rumors of a Nokia E6 device with a VGA resolution. But 800 x 600 resolution- never heard of.

So what is this? Is that an error made by the Statcounter ?. I don't know. Until now they served me right.

As symbian OS is an opensource one it can be used by any  hardware manufacturer. But you can see in the below screenshot that device is from nokia itself. Then what is this device?

 Is that a tablet?. I don't think so. When all other major manufacturers are using resolutions more than 1024 x 768 or more, I honestly don't think Nokia will decorate the late arrival with an inferior device.


Forgot to mention about the standard of spelling in the Google search string. It is terrible for someone  from USA. So I did a reverse IP check and confirmed that it is in fact from Texas.

Also the search is done to find GPRS settings of BSNL which is a company operated by Indian Government and does not provide service outside the country.

I am sorry I don't even have a wild guess of what the device could be. Big guys from tech industry may be able to find it. Let's hope they do so.