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Facebook Scam Leverages Lady Gaga’s ‘Death,’ Bypasses HTTPS

06

Aug

2011

We’ve recently analyzed a Facebook spam that purportedly comes from the media organization British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), similar to how cybercriminals used the social networking site LinkedIn early last month.The attack starts with a wall post containing the subject BREAKING: Lady Gaga Found Dead in Hotel Room together with the legitimate site www.bbc.co.uk and a […]

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Lady Gaga Found Dead in Hotel Room – Facebook Scam

05

Aug

2011

Scam Signature Message: BREAKING: Lady Gaga Found Dead in Hotel Roombbc-news-usa.infoThis is the most awful day in the US historyTrending: August 2011Scam Type: Survey Scam, Click-jacking, Like-jackingWhy it’s a Scam:Clicking on the wall post link takes you to the following page: This is another “click-jacking” scam. This means there is underlying code on this webpage that […]

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Lady Gaga found dead in hotel room? Beware Facebook clickjacking scam

05

Aug

2011

Has Lady Gaga really been found dead in a hotel room? A scam which has spread rapidly across Facebook would certainly like you to think so. Heres’s an example of a message that is being seen spreading virally on Facebook, posing as a link to a BBC TV News report. BREAKING: Lady Gaga Found Dead […]

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