A new thread of scams on social networking site Face book has claimed its newest victim in former MediaCorp artiste Fiona Xie.
The scams, which appear more than a few days ago, lures Face book users into ‘Liking‘ a link to a page talented sex videos of the voluptuous 29-year-old. The link features a thumbnail of Xie sitting suggestively in a bathtub along with the tagline “Fiona Xie. Is she REALLY as innocent as she looks?”
Clicking on the link though leads to a survey. According to Graham Cluley, a senior technology advisor at online security firm Sophos, this is an ordinary hacking technique known as ‘click jacking‘ in which the scam artist pockets a sum for every survey finished.
By fooling the victim into innocently ‘Liking‘ the page, “chances are that you (the user) will be uncomfortable that your friends now know you were seeking for sex videos of Fiona Xie,” said Mr Cluley in a blog post.
The Xie scam is supposed to be the first of its kind involving a local celebrity. Similar ones responsibility the rounds on Face book feature Hollywood stars Justin Bieber and Rihanna individually with the tagline “People totally lost their respect for (the star’s name) after watching this Sick Video”.
Ms Xie, formerly one of Caldecott Hill’s popular ‘Seven Princesses’ and ranked by men’s magazine FHM as one of the 20 sexiest women in the world in 2009, left for Hong Kong in the same year after quitting MediaCorp for unspecified personal reasons. She could not be reached for comment for this story.