Beware! Sad video of woman dying during a fight is really a Facebook scam
Posted by: Jon Ben-Mayor on 06/23/2014 12:18 PM [ Comments ]
Another day, another scam video begging you to click and watch. This one promises a view of a fight resulting in the unfortunate death of a woman and this one goes as far as claiming to be from Fox 11 News - which we of course know it is not.
This is pretty much the same deal as the one we posted about the other day and it works the same way; click, share and spread. The Fox 11 News is there to give the would be clicker confidence that the story is what it claims to be.
But as Bitdefender Hot for Security points out; you clicked up - you’ve been taken to a website which is attempting to look a little like Facebook, although the URL is designed to trick you into believe you might be on a website belonging to Fox News.
Then it does the standard scam tactic of requiring you to share the link in order to scam more people on down the line. Even if you do share the link and do "click" through all the hoops - you never do get to see the video.
Generally, US news outlets will never show someone actually being killed and you should still be suspicious even with a foreign one that was promoting something similar....
Don't click up, but if you do - get rid of the evidence off your page, warn your friends and go back to the original posting and report it as spam.
But as Bitdefender Hot for Security points out; you clicked up - you’ve been taken to a website which is attempting to look a little like Facebook, although the URL is designed to trick you into believe you might be on a website belonging to Fox News.
Then it does the standard scam tactic of requiring you to share the link in order to scam more people on down the line. Even if you do share the link and do "click" through all the hoops - you never do get to see the video.
Generally, US news outlets will never show someone actually being killed and you should still be suspicious even with a foreign one that was promoting something similar....
Don't click up, but if you do - get rid of the evidence off your page, warn your friends and go back to the original posting and report it as spam.
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