Scammers are once again using popular topics to try and scam users on Facebook.
This time, scammers are trying to exploit users’ curiosity by promising a video featuring a guilty confession from Casey Anthony, who was acquitted for the alleged murder of her infant child last week.
The new scam says something to the extent of “BREAKING NEWS - Leaked Video of Casey Anthony CONFESSING to Lawyer!”
The link adds: “Click To See - She can’t be re-tried, double jeopordy. OJ all over again!”
If you click you will be taken to a window that asks you to press the ’share' button twice. Complying then then has the scam appear on your Facebook friends’ news feeds, which will then likely prompt at least a few of them to click on the scam link and unknowingly propagate it further.
In other words, if your friends see you endorse the link, they will likely have a greater chance of clicking on it, believing that it is real.
“You'll ultimately be taken to a page which pretends to be YouTube, but is really designed to trick you into taking a survey that earns commission for the scammers,” said security firm Sophos in a blog posting.
It adds: “In other words, the more traffic they bring to the survey page - by tricking you into sharing it - the more money they could make.”
There have been a multitude of Facebook scams that rely the exploitation of users’ curiosity. Recently, scammers posted a fake entry that promised a TMZ leaked video of pop singer Justin Bieber hitting his girlfriend.
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