This is Part 2 of my look into some Facebook spam. First post is here. Decyphering the code I was bored, so I tried to decipher the code. What is this \x69\x6E\x6E\x65… stuff? Well, that’s easy. It’s the hexadecimal representation of the ASCII code for some letters/symbols. Decoding that isn’t too difficult. Placing the JS function “alert();” around the text will pop up the text as the browser sees it (once it’s decoded the hex into the actual letters.

I split this into a couple posts because it’s a bit long. The Pitch So someone (let’s not point any fingers) “suggested” I might like “How to know who blocked me ?”, a random Facebook Page. Now, ignoring the bad grammar, I took a look anyway. What we have is this lovely set of instructions: OK, OK, wait… Those are the instructions? Seriously? Let’s point out a few reasons why you probably shouldn’t follow those instructions: