Category: Celebrity Death Hoaxs

Breaking news: Counterfeit statement of Fidel Castro’s death lead to malware assault

Exist on your protector if you take delivery of an email apparently from Chile’s “24 Horas” news website announce the death of Fidel Castro, the former dictator of Cuba.


The spammed out messages, which are written in Spanish, look like the following:

The messages have a topic line of

Murio Fidel Castro



 

And the text in the emails claims that the longtime Cuban ruler died in the afternoon at his home, and that official claim that he was in use ill a few days ago after suffering a unexpected heart attack.

Recipients are urging to click on the image to see a breaking news video report about Fidel Castro’s death.

 

Of course, if Castro was actually dead (it’s believed that he has been in very poor health for some years) then it would be headline news on the likes of the BBC and CNN. But I haven’t seen any reports from those news outlets.

So don’t be fooled into clicking on the links in this email, as they will take your computer to a Trojan horse (which Sophos detects as Troj/DwnLdr-JGW) that in turns downloads further malicious code (Troj/Agent-SYF) onto your Windows PC.

Hugh Hefner is NOT dead -hoax spreads through Internet

Hugh Hefner Hugh Hefner is the newest famous person to have been determined by rumors of his death, dispersal across the internet.

Social networks such as Face book and Twitter were abuzz with news of the end of the iconic creator of Playboy magazine, who has lately had a little trouble in matters of the heart when his Playmate fiancee Crystal Harris called off their marriage. According to reports, Hefner was supposed to have died of a heart attack on Monday 11th July at 10:58PM EST.


 

 

 

Would you have supposed the reports from your social networking associates, or gone hunt for further confirmation? After all, in the history we’ve seen internet rumors spread about the hypothetical death of Christian Slater and Tom Cruise. Also, neither Johnny Depp nor Harry Potter starlet Emma Watson nor Kanye West have died in a car crash either.

 

A website called ThinkRichMusic may have been partly accountable for rousing up the frantic coverage of the dressing gown-wearing octogenarian’s demise with its over-excitable reporting. Cynics may speculate if a website might be keen to post a false story concerning the death of a celebrity in order to take delivery of a flood of traffic from social networkers, trying to corroborate the news.

 

 

 

I’m satisfied to see that ThinkRichMusic has now post an addition to its article saying that Hefner is not dead. But I wonder how many people scroll down that far. I believe there’s a significant lesson for all internet users, to get their news from entrenched news sites. On too many occasion we have seen malware being distributed from poisoned WebPages that claim to contain breaking news or shocking videos featuring people in the headline.

 

Fortunately, the news of Hefner’s death was false, and the founder of Playboy magazine turned to twitter to announce, in the style of Mark Twain, that the rumors of his death were greatly overstated.

Hefner, ever the self-publicist, also couldn’t pass up the opportunity to point out that not only was he far from dead, but he was also “lying in bed” next to his new Playboy model girlfriend Shera Be chard with a “big smile on [his] face”.

Some belongings never change. Another thing which won’t change is cybercriminals taking advantage of internet memes and breaking news stories – whether they are based in truth or utter garbage.

UK singer’s death Hoax

A rumor that UK singer Rick Astley has passed away is the latest celebrity hoax to extend from side to side the internet in the stir of Michael Jackson’s shock death.

Twitter and other social networking sites were lively with information of Astley’s death this morning, forcing the singer to corroborate on his executive website that he was alive and well.Celebrities Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Harrison Ford, Ellen DeGeneres and Jeff Goldblum are among those affirmed dead through the internet in the wake of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett’s death.

 

 

Spears were reported deceased after her Twitter account was hacked over the weekend.

 

“Britney has passed today,” one of the fake messages read.

 

“It is a sad day for everyone. More news to come.”

 

The Astley hoax appears to have in progress when a fake press release was posted on CNN’s iReport site, anywhere reader uploaded interesting satisfied.

 

According to the hoax report, Astley died in a hotel room in Berlin after paramedics were not capable to revitalize him. Responding to the rumor, Astley’s manager Tops Henderson post a statement on the singer’s website saying: “I have just spoken with Rick, who is in Copenhagen preparing for his show on Friday evening at the Tivoli Gardens.”

Internet hoaxes were an ordinary resultant effect from not just from celebrity deaths but any famed news story.

Hoaxes subsequent celebrity deaths are not just new to the internet age. According to the New York Times, the same thing happened when US President Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945.The newspaper reported callers jamming the switchboards of media outlets with rumors about the death of Frank Sinatra, Charlie Chaplin and other famous celebrities of the time.

“People have been pretty effective at passing on rumors at time well before the rise of the internet,” Mr. Bruns said.”If you think of the Kennedy assassination, there were all sorts of rum ours on the day, not just afterwards, about what happened — who did it? Did they attack anyone else?

 

“We shouldn’t undervalue the effect of communications like the telephone and word-of-mouth.”The internet has just sped up the process and amplified it.”

Will smith Death hoax Spreads virally.

Now a day tactics of hackers is spreading in terrific way in such that killing the alive person, Seeing that people will surely click over the post and get viral attacked. Here now comes Sarah Anne Smith in the latest celebrity list.

 

 

Sarah Anne Smith of the Washington Post says that Will Smith is the newest celebrity victim of an Internet hoax. Will Smith is not dead, just the victim of a nasty rumor that you may have seen on the Internet this weekend.

The Village Voice news that the latest celebrity death hoax started on FakeAWish.com, which allows users to generate a news story using an actor’s first and last name. After typing in “Will” and “Smith,” a few options pop up, including the story, “Will Smith falls to his death in New Zealand.” Twitter users helped extend the rumor using a link to an official-looking story from “Global Associated News” over the weekend.

 

 

Yet once more, a celebrity hoax has gone viral. How lame is our society that people build up celebrity deaths and circulate them? Brace manually celebrities are real people, too, with families that might be hurt over these rumors. Smith is not chilling with Biggie and Tupac. The only celebrities who died this weekend were Jeff Conaway and Gil Scott-Heron. Folks need to be thankful that they are alive and stop wishing death on others.

We’re alive! Owen Wilson, Charlie Sheen and Adam Sandler amongst celebrity internet bereavement hoaxes

The Christmas season is supposed to bring with it joy and merriment.

But amongst the catalog of (real) celebrity engagements and other happy announcements over recent days, there have also been threads of celebrity death hoaxes circulate the more febrile corners of the World Wide Web. Owen Wilson, Charlie Sheen, Adam Sandler and Eddie Murphy are among the list of stars to have been killed off in cyber space – with the whole reports claim they had disastrously died in snowboarding accidents.

Morgan Freeman and former pop star Aaron Carter have also been the subject of new online death rum ours.

Hollywood actor Wilson, 42, was reported to have died in a skiing accident today in a doubtfully posted article title ‘Global Associated News’.

The report claimed Wilson had snowboarded into a tree and died in Zermatt; Switzerland. It was then quickly picked up and approved around the net via social networking sites counting Twitter.

Another trick by the same website earlier claimed Charlie Sheen, 45, died on Boxing Day (December 26) after a snowboarding accident, also in Switzerland. ‘Sheen lost organize of his snowboard and struck a tree at a high rate of speed,’ the false report claimed.

‘Sheen was air lifted by ski patrol teams to a local hospital, however, it is believed that the actor died right away from the crash of the crash,’ it added. His ex-wife Denise Richards tweeted to ‘kill off’ the hoax, so to speak, writing on Twitter: ‘The rumor about Charlie Sheen is not true. He is alive and on his way over to see his daughters.’

Earlier in the month, Morgan Freeman, 73, was killed off after Twitter user (@originalcjizzle) retweeted to a posting by news network CNN.It read: ‘@originalcjizzle tweeted: RT @CNN: Breaking News: actor Morgan Freeman has passed away in his Burbank home<< wow legendary actor #RIPmorganfreeman.Clearly, using the name of a legitimate new channel within the Twitter post succeeded in getting the fake death notice to go viral.CNN issued a strong response, tweeting: ‘CNN did not report Morgan Freeman death. Rumor is false. CNN will aggressively investigate this hoax. ‘Former pop star Aaron Carter was another victim of the Christmas weekend celebrity death hoax.

Twitter hysteria was caused when it was reported the 23-year-old had died of a drug overdose.

But putting the rumors to bed, Aaron tweeted: ‘This is the real Aaron Carter I know there’s a Hoax going Around, but I’m Here, Alive & Well. At the complex working on my mind & soul.’