Facebook Scam Uses Miley Cyrus Bong Video as Lure

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New survey scams spotted on Facebook are taking advantage of people's interest into a leaked video showing recently turned eighteen Miley Cyrus smoking from a bong.

The spam messages read "OMG Miley Cyrs is caught smoking a BONG on video - http://bit.ly/[removed]" or "haha, ok, so yeaaah, Miley Cyrus should've NEVER let THIS bong video leak! - http://bit.ly/[removed]."

The links lead users to rogue pages displaying an image depicting the young actress with a bong in her hands. The image is part of a video recently leaked on the Internet, which shows Cyrus smoking salvia.

In order to make the make the lure more powerful, the page shows an alert reading "WARNING! This Video does contain drug abuse!"

However, when users click the button to see it, a request for permissions dialog pops up, asking them to give an app access to post on their walls.

Agreeing to this will cause people to unknowingly spam their Facebook friends and they won't even get to see the video, because they will told to complete an offer (survey) in order to unlock it.

Such surveys attempt to subscribe people to premium rate services and trick them into disclosing their personal information for spam purposes.

Scammers get a commission through affiliate marketing schemes for each victim who ends up completing such an offer.

This is not the first Miley Cyrus-themed scam to target Facebook users. In late November we reported about similar messages luring users with provocative pictures of the actress.

Users who fell victim to this scam should go to the "Account > Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites" page and remove any application they don't recognize. They should also check their wall for spam messages and delete any that were posted.

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[jtmulc]

Saw this on a friend of mine's wall. I'll be forwarding it to them.