By Mikal E. Belicove|For Entrepreneur.com|April 2, 2010

Rumor has it that later this year, Facebook will start charging its members to use the service. Although this may sound like an April Fool’s joke, the rumor’s more malicious than that. Using this ruse, pranksters and malicious hackers have stirred up angry tirades against the social media giant and convinced thousands of Facebook members to click links to websites that hijack their computers, blast them with offensive pictures and install malware on their systems.

As web users, it’s important to remain skeptical and on guard and to resist the temptation to forward potentially alarming messages to friends, family and colleagues. We must remind ourselves that everything we hear, see and read on the web isn’t always true.

Running a simple fact check on Snopes or digging up accurate information on Facebook can keep you from falling victim to this scam (and others) and becoming complicit in victimizing others.

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