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There is a rapidly growing trend on Facebook, in which scammers address the concerns of users on Facebook through groups that provide fake solutions in an attempt to build extremely large followings. Larby has even noticed two or three groups, which entice users to invite their friends in order to unlock, extended Facebook features. An example of this is the 'Change Your Facebook Profile Theme with colorbook'', this tells users to invite all of their friends to a Facebook group in order to learn how to change your Facebook profile color. Larby noticed that the way that the colorbook group works is that they claim users would receive a notification once 75 percent of a user's friends have joined the group.

Larby realizes that it's pretty much impossible to determine when all or even a fraction of your friends have joined a Facebook group, which means this group is obviously a hoax. Another group uses the exact same model as the 'colorbook' group except that the group claims you can access a new version of Facebook Chat once you've invited all of your friends. Read more at larbyamirouche.com

Larby believes these scams are stupid, because there is very little incentive for having a massive group aside from being able to send messages to users, something which is restricted once the group passes 5,000 members or so. The only identifiable benefit in Larby's view is that a person can attempt to create one of the largest groups on Facebook.