New Facebook scam: [SHOCKING VIDEO] Flight MH370 FOUND in Indian Ocean!
Posted by: Jon Ben-Mayor on 04/02/2014 03:46 AM
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The authors of the newest Facebook scam for Malaysia flight MH370 have doctored the teaser picture by removing the airline livery from the photo in order to make the claim more believable; previous versions of the scam didn't even bother to do this and some photos were shown with US Airways tail identifiers among others.
We have posted about these scams in the recent past; however, as new ones arise and get spread out through social media, we feel it is good practice to continue to warn about them.
This is the original photo that is being used, the red lettering was removed for the scam.
Hoaxslayer reiterates that this Facebook post is a callous and nasty scam designed simply to promote a dodgy video streaming website. Users who click the teaser image in the hope of seeing the crash footage will be taken to a bogus Facebook page that supposedly hosts the video. But, when they attempt to play the video, they are told via a popup notice that they must first share it on Facebook Via this mechanism, the scam post is seen by all of the user's friends and will therefore gain more victims who will continue to spread it across the network.
Once users have dutifully shared the scam message, they will be redirected to a suspect video streaming website that again supposedly hosts the crash video. But, users will be told that they must create an account on the video site before they can view the footage. Even if they do create an account as requested, they will never get to see the promised video, which never existed in the first place.
Again, if you looked at it - delete the post, warn your friends and report it as spam!
We have posted about these scams in the recent past; however, as new ones arise and get spread out through social media, we feel it is good practice to continue to warn about them.
Hoaxslayer reiterates that this Facebook post is a callous and nasty scam designed simply to promote a dodgy video streaming website. Users who click the teaser image in the hope of seeing the crash footage will be taken to a bogus Facebook page that supposedly hosts the video. But, when they attempt to play the video, they are told via a popup notice that they must first share it on Facebook Via this mechanism, the scam post is seen by all of the user's friends and will therefore gain more victims who will continue to spread it across the network.
Once users have dutifully shared the scam message, they will be redirected to a suspect video streaming website that again supposedly hosts the crash video. But, users will be told that they must create an account on the video site before they can view the footage. Even if they do create an account as requested, they will never get to see the promised video, which never existed in the first place.
Again, if you looked at it - delete the post, warn your friends and report it as spam!
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