- May 3, 2011
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- Fake video from survey scammersIt looks like scammers have run out of ideas, because this particular scam was also circulated towards the end of December 2013.
The deceiving video appears to be an attempt from survey scammers to increase their earnings. Basically, clicking on the play button takes the user outside the Facebook page, to an address that looks like the social networking website.
According to a report from Malwarebytes, users are taken to frvideoss(dot)com/serp/ and, with the lure of the video in the background, they are prompted to share it before accessing the content.
This is where the scam has the possibility to spread to the microblogging platform, because many users have the Facebook account set to update the Twitter feed.
Regardless of whether the victim decides to conform, they are taken to a different page, videolafr(dot)com/eng/, which tells them that they are one survey away from viewing the video; again, the clip is shown in the background.
Malwarebytes says that the survey varies according to the region it is accessed from.
To spare you some trouble and to quench your curiosity, you can watch a similar video for free. The clip is available on YouTube and can be found easily with a web search. Not surprisingly, many sources on the web claim it is a fake.
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