X-Labs
May 2, 2011

Osama bin Laden scams on Facebook

Patrik Runald

We've seen scams using Osama bin Laden's death in other places and of course they made it onto Facebook as well. Here is the first example talking about a video:

 

When clicking on the link the user is taken to a page on Facebook asking them to copy/paste the code into the browser's address bar so that they can watch the video:

 

All you do is to help spread the message so don't do this.

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