Facebook suicide death video? Rogue application makes money for survey scammers

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Jack

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Only the ghoulish would want to watch a webcam video of a young woman committing suicide after she broke up from her boyfriend. Or so you would like to think.

However, this is precisely the bait being used by Facebook survey scammers who have used a number of rogue applications to trick users into clicking on links, and taking surveys that earn them money.

Innocent Facebook users are unwittingly sharing links such as the following:
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