One more scam is hitting Face book this weekend pretend to be a video of British TV famous person Jeremy Kyle being head butted.
Similar to the Jerry Springer demonstrate in the United States, Kyle’s show is infamous in the UK for showcasing contentious satisfied. As have many of the fake Face book application we have seen in the past, it needs consent to post to your wall and then propagate crossways the walls of curious Face book friends who click the link.
In addition to dispersal on Face book, this scam is being sent out on Twitter using a mixture of spam and compromise lawful Twitter accounts. The Twitter links in the end lead you to the Face book application, rather than directly to the affiliate advertising scams it is intended to spread.
One wind which we have seen more often of late is the bogus request requesting consents to “Manage my pages“. If the assailant can trick a Face book page administrator into granting their request control to post on the page, it allows them to send their message to a much larger audience.
At the time of writing more than 11,500 populace have clicked through to this scam, which plays out in an all too familiar way. You are led to a Face book request which looks like a video player. When you click the video it asks for permission to “Like” it. Instead of seeing the promised video, you are then asked to plug out a review, play a game or take an IQ test. Companies that offer money to persons who can drive them referral traffic are ultimately to blame for these problems. Every person who takes the IQ test and subscribes to a premium rate SMS repair will result in the scammer being paid an associate fee.
Alike survey scams in the past have posed as free seat at a Justin Bibber concert or free airline tickets, amongst many other disguises.