Has Lady Gaga actually be found dead in a hotel room? A scam which has increase rapidly across Facebook would surely like you to think so.
Heres’s an instance of a message that is life form seen spreading virally on Facebook, affectation as a link to a BBC TV News report.
Lady Gaga establish dead in hotel room
BREAKING: Lady Gaga Found Dead in Hotel Room
This is the most awful day in US history
Wow. I denote, yes, it would be tragic if Lady Gaga were to die, but.. Seriously.. “The most awful day in US history”?Anyway, if you are tricked into clicking on the link you are taken in the end (via a website which sloppily allows an open redirect) to a webpage that pretends to contain a BBC News video report:
Watch out, though, if you try to play the video as this is a clickjacking scam which attempt to silently say you “Like” the page when you click with your mouse.
Users who have installed a browser add-on such a No Script for Firefox will see a message caution them of the peril of being click jacked.
If you’ve been hit by a scam like this, remove the messages and likes from your Facebook page – and caution your friends not to click on the offending links. Clearly there’s much more work which wants to be done by Facebook to prevent these sorts of messages spreading so fast.