Facebook users are being subjected to a mix of chain-mail / spam / hoax which may or may not have a fraudulent purpose. It's working because of the viral nature of relationships within the system.
The following is the text of a spam which is rapidly making its way around facebook users through the internal messaging system (verbatim, including layout)
Facebook Members,Facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated. There have been many complaining that Facebook is becoming very slow. Records show that the reason is that there are many active Facebook members and, on the other side, many new Facebook members.We will be sending this message around to see if members are active or not. If you are active please send to at least 15 other users using Copy+ Paste to show that you are still active. *Those who do not send this message within 2 weeks will be deleted without hesitation to create more space.*Send this message to all your friends and to show me that your still active and you will not be deleted.Founder of Facebook,Mark Zuckerberg
Obviously, users should not redistribute the note but unfortunately many are sufficiently dumb as to do so.
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