Category: Twitter Haoxs

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.

Lady Gaga Fell into Twitter Scam

If you observe any posts on Twitter with a link to a “Banned Lady Gaga Video,” anything you do, DO NOT CLICKS ON IT. The Face book Scam Spam trend is dispersal across Twitter claiming the Twitter queen herself Lady Gaga.

The tweets are spreading through a rogue request that thousands of Twitter users have linked with. The tweet promises a link to a “banned” Lady Gaga video, which any true Monster knows does not exist. Once you click on the bit.ly link, you are taken to a fake YouTube page and when you click the play push button a box pops up asking you to funding permission to a third-party app to access your Twitter account. Don’t do it! If you do, the third-party app will have access to your account and be able to send tweets to all of your followers.

Though Lady Gaga fell for the scam she has managed to delete all the unsanctioned tweets. However, Sophos tracked the tweets down. Here’s what was tweeted:

 

“TAROT de shakira [LINK] clarividente de @shakira #horoscopo ganar dinero navegando.”

 

“VIDEO PROHIBIDO LADY GAGA @lady gaga [LINK] ganar dinero navegando.”

 

Lady Gaga issued a Twitter caution to whoever is at the back the app, threatening to unleash her Little Monsters on them. But it looks like the damage was already done. Fooling Lady Gaga is a huge coo for the rogue app considering Lady Gaga has 9.6 million followers, making her the most followed Twitter feed in the world at the time of this writing. With that kind of influence, you can only visualize how many victims this app has already claimed.

Miley Cyrus Sex Tape Hoax scattering On Face book

In the newest repayment of “Watch your most beloved/hated pop star do malicious things by clicking on this Face book link!” an supposed Miley Cyrus sex tape is circulating on Face book, but the entire thing is (surprise!) a scam. Let us know if you’ve seen this on your News Feed.

It was a hypothetical sex tape connecting Lindsey Lohan which got people rsvp-ing to actions that would link them to the video; of course, in reality the whole thing was about making you whole sale forms online, and the video didn’t exist. Then, it was Justin Bieber’s turn, and the promise to see the teen pop star during a “happy” moment actually spread spam and malware to your Face book friends.

Now, it appears that a new scam is spreading on Face book, though we still have to see it appear in our News Feeds. According to Sophos, a status update that goes, “omg Miley Cyrus sex tape [plus link]” is captivating over some legitimate Face book client accounts. It is indistinct how the users’ accounts are being compromise at the second, although the website that the link takes you to is clearly nasty. Do not click on it!

Have you seen this on your page/news feed?

Britney Spears has her Twitter account hacked Once More

Just over two months ago I explained on Twitter why I was next Britney Spears. In a nutshell, I pursue Britney on Twitter not because I’m involved in her music or her complex private life, but since it’s the best way of getting a heads-up on when her account next gets hacked.

Ironically enough, I wasn’t on Twitter nowadays as I was downward in London language at the “Information Security in the Public Sector” meeting about social networking threats.

So, where’s the irony? Well, while I was chatting about some of Britney’s past plight on Twitter her account was being hacked – again!

This occasion the bad guys replace her wallpaper and profile picture with emblems signifying she was part of some conspiratorial masonic secret world government (as far as I know, this isn’t true about Britney, although I have from time to time supposed she might be a shape-shifting lizard):

Some post were also posted to her legions of followers (over 3.7 million at the last count);

I expect that the new world order will arrive as soon as possible! -Britney

And

I give myself to Lucifer every day for it to arrive as quickly as possible. Glory to Satan!

 

I deduce we should be thankful that these hacks appear to have been mindless damage rather than aggravated by more malicious intentions. Imagine, for example, if the hacker had posted a message saying “Free tickets to a secret concert” which had taken some of Britney Spears’s millions of ardent fans to a malicious website? It’s not clear at this stage how Britney’s Twitter account was compromised – but probably the most likely bet is that a simple easy-to-crack password was being used or that one of Britney’s team fell for a phishing attack.

The Twitter account of Britney Spears does come into view to have now been brought back to order, and regret was posted to her followers:

 

However the attack happened it’s a opportune reminder to all of us (whether responsible for Twitter accounts with a small or huge following) to take greater care with our online security.

Vanished all esteem for Emma Watson? Face book click jacking assault spreads virally

Emma Watson, the actress who plays the fraction of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, has establish herself the topic of a click jacking scam on Face book.

User of the social network have seen mail posted by their online friends claiming to have misplaced all respect for Emma Watson, after surveillance a video starring the young actress.

I mislaid all respect for Emma Watson when I seen this video! Outrageous!
Other versions may read:I lost all admiration for Emma Watson when I saw this video! Outrageous!


If you’re inquisitive sufficient to click on the link, your browser will be taken to a webpage which pretend to be a YouTube-style video site called FbVideo.

If you’ve got this far, you’ll almost certainly be tempted to tick to view the video. However, like the many click jacking attack we saw on Face book, you will be imperceptibly clicking on a “Like” button without your information, sharing the link further with your friends.

The page is intended to display a survey scam, which both earns money for the scammers and can trick you into handing over your mobile phone number to sign you up for a premium rate SMS service.You can protect yourself from click jacking threats like this by using browser plug-in such as No Script for Firefox.

But wouldn’t it be great if Face book required users to confirm that they wished to “Like” a webpage? That would make scams like have a harder time spreading virally via the social network.

By the way, other versions of the scam are using the names of Miley Cyrus.

If you find you have accidentally “Liked” an offending webpage, remove references to it from your wall and check your profile settings.

As Chet pointed out with a similarly-themed Justin Bieber clickjacking scam on Facebook, it can also make sense to logout from Facebook when you are not actively using it to reduce the probability of you being tricked into “Liking” things you don’t really like.

Charlie Sheen confine Hoax – Tweet Was support No confine Hired

It was approximately one week ago that millions of people were told that Charlie Sheen was hiring a marketing intern to aid Sheen with his online social networking; this buzz came as a result of a tweet on Charlie Sheen’s Twitter account that turned out to be nothing more than a Twitter endorsement for Internships.com.

The national media took to the story of Charlie Sheen’s detain and the word spread like wildfire which only gained sheen more of a following and achieved more click-trough via Sheen’s endorsement tweet. A click-through is every time an important person clicks on the link on Sheen’s tweet. Many companies, organizations and websites are now paying celebrity and highly follow people on twitter to promote their product or service, and the more people that click on that endorsed link, the additional money that celebrity or extremely followed people will earn.


Internships.com refuse to comment on just how much Charlie Sheen earned as a result of redistribution the endorsement tweet on Twitter.com. They did corroborate that it was the uppermost paid tweet in the past and that can only lead us to consider that Sheen’s earnings are in excess of $50,000 since that was the preceding record earnings for an endorsement tweet based on compensation for a specified amount for each click-through.

Charlie Sheen and Internships.com said that Sheen’s intern would be announced by March 12th, 2011 and to no surprise there was no mention of which Charlie Sheen’s intern is. This just tells us that indeed this was not anything more than an advertisement that Sheen posted via twitter because of his high quantity of followers and he never had intention on hiring an intern to begin with. Having such a obviously high following, who would think that he would want someone to get him more followers anyways, he is doing a good enough job at this on his own.

Perhaps Charlie Sheen should employ a big shot to get him out of the hole that he is digging with this highly buzzed hoax? This story is once again taking Charlie Sheen from Hollywood Fame to Hollywood Shame as the most important Hall of Shamer.

While Charlie Sheen’s Twitter post for a jail may have been a trick and severely a publicity blitz, he is not doing as bad as some people may think. Charlie Sheen newly landed a movie deal as a foremost role in Major League 3 , and Sheen has also just launched a tour for his stage presentation resulting from his Upstream broadcasts Are you a Charlie Sheen follower on Twitter? Have you clicked on any of his links, visited websites that he has mentioned like the comedy website post he tweeter of Funny or Die  or maybe you have recently gone to his own new website that he has been mentioning where he is selling products of his celebrity meltdown and tickets to his upcoming shows.

May be you enjoy following him and ongoing to support his madness while making him more money as you are struggling to hold onto your own?