New Facebook scam - 'Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane Found in Forest'
Posted by: Jon Ben-Mayor on 03/24/2014 03:07 AM
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The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is now in the third week - without any real information as to where the plane is. This tragedy continues to be an open playground for scammers - the newest scam being circulated is that the plane has been found in the forest.
The teaser video shows a plane (this time the scammers actually used an Malaysia airliner) sitting on a dirt road on the edge of a forest.
Hoax-Slayer details the purpose of the scam, which is to gather large numbers of Page likes so that the Page can be reused for further spam and scam campaigns or sold on the black market. This is just one among several similar fake video Facebook scams that falsely claim that the plane has been found. If you receive one of these messages, do not click on any links that it contains.
Those who take the bait and click the link in the message will be taken to a fake Facebook webpage that appears to host the crash video. However, when users click the "Play" button on the video, a popup message will inform them that they must share the post on their Facebook wall before they can view the footage, ostensibly for security reasons.
If users do share as requested, they will next be taken to a Facebook Page and told that they must like the Page before proceeding to the video. Once they like the Page, users will then receive a message containing a link to a YouTube video. However, this YouTube video contains nothing more than an outdated news segment about the search for the missing plane.
Any Facebook post that asks you to click a link, should be viewed as potentially harmful - when the the plane has been actually located it will be big news and will come from mainstream reputable news sources....
As we have said before - If you looked at it - delete the post, warn your friends and report it as spam!
The teaser video shows a plane (this time the scammers actually used an Malaysia airliner) sitting on a dirt road on the edge of a forest.Hoax-Slayer details the purpose of the scam, which is to gather large numbers of Page likes so that the Page can be reused for further spam and scam campaigns or sold on the black market. This is just one among several similar fake video Facebook scams that falsely claim that the plane has been found. If you receive one of these messages, do not click on any links that it contains.
Those who take the bait and click the link in the message will be taken to a fake Facebook webpage that appears to host the crash video. However, when users click the "Play" button on the video, a popup message will inform them that they must share the post on their Facebook wall before they can view the footage, ostensibly for security reasons.
If users do share as requested, they will next be taken to a Facebook Page and told that they must like the Page before proceeding to the video. Once they like the Page, users will then receive a message containing a link to a YouTube video. However, this YouTube video contains nothing more than an outdated news segment about the search for the missing plane.
Any Facebook post that asks you to click a link, should be viewed as potentially harmful - when the the plane has been actually located it will be big news and will come from mainstream reputable news sources....
As we have said before - If you looked at it - delete the post, warn your friends and report it as spam!
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