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The fake BBC video Facebook scam returns

24

Sep

2011

It seems scammers have a bit of thing for spoofing BBC websites at the moment. Yesterday it was work from home scams, and last month it was a Facebook wheeze which (in a nutshell) went like this: “Lady Gaga is dead and here’s a BBC video to prove it, also click here.” Maybe the (unrelated) […]

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Should you trust this ‘BBC’ news report? Work from home scam spammed out

22

Sep

2011

Who do you trust online? Your friends? Lady Gaga? The media? How about the BBC? If you read a news story on the BBC website, would you trust what it was saying? A Naked Security reader forwarded us this interesting email which (fortunately) had been quarantined by his anti-spam defences. What’s particularly interesting is the […]

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Lady Gaga is still not dead – stop falling for Facebook scams

19

Sep

2011

This weekend we saw another spate of Facebook messages claiming to link to a BBC News report of the death of Lady Gaga. Of course, the claims are untrue – and Lady Gaga is still alive. But that isn’t stopping Facebook scammers from creating money-making websites that claim that the eccentric pop star has been […]

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