Girls Aloud pop star Cheryl Cole, celebrated in the UK for her role as a moderator on top TV show “The X Factor” which had its majestic final last night, is being subjugated by scammers on Face book.
Scammers are using a clickjacking method to deception users into “liking” a webpage devoid of their knowledge; believe it to be a BBC News report about paparazzi photographs that have exposed the popular celebrity. Using the recognizable poster of the BBC News website, the story under is not exactly the err… Content you would usually relate with the British Broadcasting Corporation. Instead it shows a typically shocking pararazzi photograph of Cheryl Cole getting out of a car while wearing a short skirt.
Barely the most persuasive copy of the BBC website I’ve ever seen, but if you are tempt to click on the page uses a clickjacking method to imperceptibly “like” the webpage, allocation it with all of your Facebook friends and buddies.
BBC News: Cheryl Cole Exposed Paparazzi Photos!
You won’t realize, though, that your Facebook page has been rationalized unless you purposely look at your feed. Instead, chances are that some fans of Cheryl Cole will venture further, seeing another page which looks clearly unlike those normally produced by the BBC – and ultimately a picture that is often printed in the more lowbrow British newspapers.
So, what’s all the reason of all this? Well, it appears that one time again scammers are abusing Facebook users to drive traffic to online surveys – designed to earn them charge for each survey completed. It’s actually time that something more serious was done about spam like this, which has been exploiting Facebook users for far too long.
If you have been hit by a scam like this, delete the messages from your newsfeed and remove the “like’s from your profile.