Amy Winehouse death video scams hit Facebook

Very often 'significant' events bring the scammers out of the woodwork. The death of Amy Winehouse just like the death of Osama Bin Laden have brought them out again. Our interest in prurient video, photos etc can cause many to click on a link purporting to be from a reliable source.

As far as we know, there is no video footage of her death. The only thing you will get is possibly a computer virus.

Don't click on any links saying you can see such video.

By Rosa Golijan (MSNBC.Com)

As soon as the news that singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London home hit the Internet, the usual reactions began flooding in. There were plenty of touching tributes, a handful of cruel jokes, and a wave of emotional tweets. And now there's the almost obligatory series of Facebook scams which seems to follow a well-publicized death.

Sophos reports that the first scams started popping up barely four hours after the 27-year-old singer's death was confirmed. The only comforting news is that the schemes are simple and familiar: Scammers attempt to lure individuals into clicking a link out of sheer morbid curiosity.

Just as many were tricked into compromising the security of their Facebook accounts or computers by links claiming to lead to photos or videos of Osama bin Laden's death a few months ago, folks are now being lured into helping cold-hearted and malicious scammers profit by following links offering video footage taken hours before Winehouse passed away:

Sophos

This is how one of the links related to the Amy Winehouse death video scam might look on Facebook.

As Sophos explains, these links most certainly do not actually contain videos of the deceased singer's final hours, but instead lead to online surveys from which the scammers earn a commission — as well as a pop-up message which tricks victims into exposing their friends to the scam.

So what can you do to protect yourself? Think twice before clicking a link you discover in your News Feed — is the friend who shared it really the type who would "like" a video like that? — and keep an eye out for peculiar pop-ups.

And if you get suckered into a scam like this despite being careful? It's ok, it happens to the best of us. But there are a few things you should do:

• Check the security settings on your Facebook account. Did you really authorize all the apps and websites which are interacting with your Facebook account? No? Take access away from the ones which look unfamiliar.

Employment Scam 1

This is a classic employment scam - sounds good though doesn't it?

There is no job! They are going to take your desire to work in the UK and will try to saddle you with a variety of up-front fees to get that job. In addition they often ask you for a copy of your CV (resume) which of course has a significant amount of your personal information in it - DON'T SEND THEM ANYTHING! They can use that information for things like identity theft, blackmail, sending you more and more targeted scams among other things.

Also - a quick search using Google of the phone number will give you many hits - all showing that this is a scam! Use Google or another search engine and select some parts of the email - you will be surprised what you find!

DELETE THE EMAIL AND DO NOT RESPOND TO IT - IT IS WITHOUT QUESTION A SCAM!

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