Catchy title on Facebook’s Walls
By Gina on September 27, 2010 | Phishing, Facebook, wall, “Girl killed herself, after her dad posted This to her Wall", phishing, scam, survey
One of Facebook’s scam returned. If you see a title “Girl killed herself, after her dad posted This to her Wall“, be sure that this is a scam. Fake information pops-up on a user Wall and gains to follow instructions in filling a survey.
It seems like this scam is very tricky and has catchy title, that’s why it comes back for its second chance.
As common for scams like this one, it always has a link which is advertised in need to click for further information. Once the user lose their vigilance and clicks on the link it takes them to another page where they need to confirm themselves they are humans and not a bot.
These tricky ways and fake pop-ups that contain rogue information and fictitious warnings are simple hijacks that are needed for the scammers, in order to spread the scam further.
At last user is offered to fill a survey for the last time that they can read full text and story. However, the only thing that will actually happen if the user does complete the survey is that the scammers will try to make them sign up to premium rate services.
As you can see these catchy titles of the stories can be not a pure story but a tricky and dangerous scam that is hard to resist. Just be cautious of these kinds of dangers and do not lose your vigilance on information’s reliability.
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