Face book user are being tempt to tick on links to what purport to be a video of Osama bin Laden life form shot, in the newest in a sequence of scams exploit the hot news story of the Al Qaeda leader’s death.
The messages come into view as follows:
Watch the Osama Shoot down video
Osama Dead – Censored Video Leaked
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Osama is dead, watch this exclusive CNN video which was suppressed by Obama Administration due to level of violence, a must watch. Leaked by Wiki leaks.Clicking on the link, though, will not right away show you some amazing recording of US Navy Seals attacking Osama bin Laden’s mix in Pakistan.
Instead, you’re told you will have to take an online survey.
That ought to be sufficient to set your alarm bells ringing – as survey scams are a continuing trouble on Face book, earning scammers payment with every survey they run to trick users into implementation.What’s most appealing about this scam is that they trick you into cutting-and-pasting a line of JavaScript into your web browser’s address bar.
Not that you’ll comprehend that you’re doing that, of course. As far as you know all you’re doing is following a sequence of commands and keyboard presses before you watch the video. But any time you paste a script into your browser’s address bar; you’re efficiently running code printed by the scammers without the safety net of shield.
Before you know it, you’ll be distribution the news of the “Osama Shoot down video” with all of your Face book friends, and the scam will be dispersion virally.My guess is that you don’t desire to make it so easy for the scammers to run their scripts on your browser – so don’t fall for scam like this.
Be very careful not to be fooled by scams related to Osama bin Laden’s death, not just on Face book but on other parts of the internet too. Such a big news story always seems to attract the interest of fraudsters and malware authors.
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