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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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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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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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