{"id":152,"date":"2011-04-29T07:20:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T07:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/?p=152"},"modified":"2017-08-24T07:27:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T07:27:02","slug":"miley-cirus-drugs-scam-hits-face-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/facebook-hackers\/miley-cirus-drugs-scam-hits-face-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Miley Cirus drugs scam hits Face book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Face book<\/strong> user have been bombard with up till now one more spam review scam, this occasion using the entice of a video allegedly depicting actress Miley Cirus taking drugs. In a blog post, Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley warned that the survey scams typically arrive from a user\u2019s friend\u2019s account with a message such as:<em><strong> \u201cOMG Miley Cyrus is caught smoking a BONG on video [LINK]\u201d<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-153\" title=\"mileycyrus1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/mileycyrus1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clicking on the link will obtain a user from side to side to another page talented the footage, and clicking through again will enable a rogue Face book request to run on the user\u2019s computer.<em><strong>\u201cIf you do agree to grant the authorization, you&#8217;ll be taken to an online survey (part of the CPALead network) which earn cash for the scammers through affiliate revenue,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Cluley explained.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-154\" title=\"mileycyrus2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/mileycyrus2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile you&#8217;re finishing the survey, and earning the scammers a few money, their rogue claim has posted the link onto your wall, sharing it with your friends and thus perpetuating the scam even more.\u201dHe warned that scams of this type could also be used to filch personal information. \u201cIf you&#8217;ve been hit by a scam like this, get rid of reference to it from your newsfeed, and withdraw the right of rogue application to right of entry your profile <strong>via Account\/ Privacy Settings\/ Applications and web sites,<\/strong>\u201d wrote Cluley.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Social engineering-led attacks such as this are probable to grow in popularity in 2011, according to several security vendors.Trend Micro warned in its prediction for the impending year that the practice will become increasingly popular via<strong> email,<\/strong> as it is a more measurable way of sending out malware than infiltrating web sites as part of a drive-by-download attack.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Face book user have been bombard with up till now one more spam review scam, this occasion using the entice of a video allegedly depicting actress Miley Cirus taking drugs. In a blog post, Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley warned that the survey scams typically arrive from a user\u2019s friend\u2019s account with a message &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/facebook-hackers\/miley-cirus-drugs-scam-hits-face-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Miley Cirus drugs scam hits Face book&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43,41],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook-hackers","tag-miley-cirus","tag-scammers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}