Mario Kart Facebook Scam

Yet another scam has popped up on Facebook.

This one is the Mario Kart Scam. A bogus post encourages Facebook users to play Mario Kart with their friends.

This particularly insidious scam can appear as a shared status update or, more unsettling, as a private message from an infected friend.

Users who click the links wont be taken to a multi-player Mario Kart game but will instead be redirected to one of those terrible survey sites (what else would it be).

To prevent the scam from spreading to friends, users should immediately delete any Mario Kart posts from their homepage.

If the Mario Kart scam was delivered via private message, deleting the message from the preview window in your newsfeed should prevent the message from opening and spreading anew.

As always, victims are encouraged to run a full system scan to root out any malware.