Now-a-days social networking media became very popular among the youths, as technology growing the illegal things also going on..As day today life people get easily scammed. This blog gives you the details about the face book user who got fooled by a fake link
Face book user were entice into clicking links that apparently led to a sex video featuring actress Fiona Xie , but were in its place fooled into scattering the link.
A original scam that tries to attract users of social networking site Face book into clicking ‘like’ on a page promising sex videos of former MediaCorp artist Fiona Xie has surfaced.
The scam, which appeared quite a few times ago, is the initial such scam to feature a local celebrity, and features a picture of the bosomy 29-year-old beauty sitting in a bathtub, together with the tagline asking:
‘Fiona Xie. Is she actually as innocent as she looks?’ Those who click the ‘like’ button, are promised personal sexual videos of famous Singapore celebrities here. Only enter if you are 18 years old and above.’
The person, who clicks, won’t come across any sex videos of Ms Xie, ranked the world’s 13th sexiest woman by lad-mag FHM in 2009, or any other local celebrity. There is, said security firm Sophos’ senior technology consultant Graham Cluley, just a survey to complete.
This is the cause for the scam, as the scammers create money for each survey completed, he added. Victims may also discover themselves in for some humiliation; since their activities would be transmit to all their Facebook links. It is also how the scam is perpetuated, with one hapless victim plugging the scam to his Facebook friends in hopes that they too will click on it and extend it to their contacts.
The good news is that this is the boundary of the damage for this particular ‘click-jacking’ scam, as the bug is recognized in security parlance.