Facebook has cut off scores of fake member profiles attempting to push rogue anti-virus programs to unwitting users.

Roger Thompson, chief research officer of security firm AVG, said in a blog post Thursday that he and his team have witnessed some 200 real-looking profiles on Facebook containing purporting to belong to a blonde woman. Each profile looks the same except that it contains different names for the woman.

He told SCMagazineUS.com on Friday that the purveyors of the scam likely are getting victims to visit the bogus profiles through socially engineered emails.

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