How can you tell if a Facebook account is fake? Barracuda Labs is on the case.

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Facebook security offered more details on yesterday’s announcement that it was teaming up with the attorney general’s office in the state of Washington to take on scams on the social network.

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The crowded Facebook campaign-management field has a new addition with some questionable features: Self-described “Facebook marketing bomb” FaceDominator.

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Oops! Facebook issued an apology for temporarily blocking its users from sharing any links from Snopes and generating an automatic warning saying, “The content you’re trying to share includes a link that’s been blocked for being spammy or unsafe.”

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Spammers went straight to the source over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, targeting the community forum on the Facebook help center.

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Scams promising free Facebook Credits still exist, but they’re withering on the vine.

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As many as 84 percent of companies can’t block fraudulent accounts and hackings, yet as many as 40 percent of the signup attempts on any commerce site are bogus.

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Chalk up a win for Facebook in the war against malware and spam: The two companies extinguished further repostings of bogus $50 gift cards for Starbucks.

These posts were going up at a rapid pace until around 5 pm Eastern Standard Time.

Now technology from Websense and Web of Trust stops the repostings with a warning message.

The warning says that Facebook is blocking the web address Bestgiftalert.com for being “spammy or unsafe.”

The message also provides a link to the social network’s help center.

There’s also an alternative for people who believe they’re seeing the pop-up window in error.

The swiftness of this techonological response seems very promising for security on the site.

Readers, did you see any posts about free $50 Starbucks gift cards on Facebook before the site started blocking the web address involved?

Facebook users have a resource to defend against spam and malicious links posted on their walls or newsfeeds with the launch of F-Secure’s ShareSafe application.

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Norton parent Symantec announced the release of two new free tools to help Facebook users avoid likejacking scams.

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