Peaches Posted July 19, 2011 Report Share Posted July 19, 2011 More Mixed Language Scams Making the Rounds on Facebook Facebook scammers continue to make use of a new trick that involves using foreign language dialogs in order to confuse users and increase the success rate of their campaigns.A new scam spotted by security researchers from antivirus vendor Sophos lures users with the promise of an intriguing video."This girl must be Out of her Mind to do this on live Television! Watch the embarrassing moment of her," spam messages sent by the scam's victims read. Clicking on the advertised link takes users to a page showing them a Facebook-like dialog box asking "Are you older than 18 years of age? Choose an option below. Click 'Jaa' twice to play."This first window has the purpose of training the user to click on "Jaa" which means "share" in Finnish, but also "yes" in informal English. The second window is a real Facebook share dialog intentionally displayed in Finnish to confuse users about its true purpose. Clicking on "Jaa" for the second time here will cause the spam message to be shared from people's accounts, further propagating the scam."When I tested the scam on my computer I was taken a to a website that was clearly pretending to be YouTube, but - presumably to avoid getting itself into trouble with lawyers - used a 'YonTube' logo instead. Story - http://news.softpedi...ok-212140.shtml Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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