{"id":158,"date":"2011-05-03T08:56:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T08:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/?p=158"},"modified":"2017-08-24T07:26:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T07:26:18","slug":"osama-bin-laden-bereavement-video-scam-spreads-virally-on-face-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/facebook-hackers\/osama-bin-laden-bereavement-video-scam-spreads-virally-on-face-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Osama Bin Laden bereavement video scam spreads virally on Face book"},"content":{"rendered":"

A link which claims to tip to a video of the death of Osama Bin Laden<\/strong> has been extend virally across Face book today, just hours after the death of the Al Qaeda leader. The messages, posed as updates on Face book users’ walls, assert to point to banned video footage of Osama Bin Laden’s death:<\/p>\n

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SHOCKING NEW video of OSAMA BIN LADENS DEATH!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Exclusive BANNED VDEIO footage of Osama Bin Laden being killed!!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n


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(In the screenshots used all through this article we have hidden the image as some may find it disturbing).<\/p>\n

Clicking on the link<\/strong> take you to a Face book page which urges you to like and split the link with your Face book friends, before you can watch the “shocking”<\/strong> footage:<\/p>\n

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However, sharing the link with others just helps extend it more across the social network, and as an alternative of a shocking video you are in its place obtainable with an all-too-familiar survey which you are told you must whole before you can go any further. The scammers<\/strong> earn money every time a survey is completed, and that’s why they desire you to share the link with others.<\/p>\n

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Sophos is advising computer users to watch out for scams related to Osama Bin Laden’s death, not just on Face book but on extra parts of the internet too. Such a big news story forever seems to attract the curiosity of fraudsters and malware authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A link which claims to tip to a video of the death of Osama Bin Laden has been extend virally across Face book today, just hours after the death of the Al Qaeda leader. The messages, posed as updates on Face book users’ walls, assert to point to banned video footage of Osama Bin Laden’s … Continue reading “Osama Bin Laden bereavement video scam spreads virally on Face book”<\/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":[44,45],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook-hackers","tag-osama-bin-laden-bereavement","tag-video-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}