Facebook scam says Lady Gaga’s dead!
August 7th, 2011 - 2:48 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 7 (IANS) A scam doing the rounds on social networking website Facebook claims that singer Lady Gaga has been found dead in a hotel room.
To warn people about the scam, computer security firm Sophos has released a statement, reports msnbc.msn.com.
“If you are tricked into clicking on the link, you are taken ultimately (via a website which sloppily allows an open redirect) to a webpage that pretends to contain a BBC News video report,” senior technology consultant Graham Cluley said in a blog post.
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