Scam Alert

[Jollygoodfellow]

AirAsia QZ8501 Scam Alert: ‘Plane Found In Tacloban Philippines’ Lures Users Into Clicking Malicious Malware

 

A news break complete with a fake CNN logo claiming that the missing AirAsia QZ8501 was already found in Tacloban, Philippines is a hoax. The fraudulent link had an image of another AirAsia plane that slid off the runway in Malaysia back in 2011.

 

Clicking the link routes readers to a bogus CNN web page complete with a fake video. The instruction prompts for readers to like and share the video on Facebook in order to watch the purported actual AirAsia QZ8501 discovery.  However, after liking and sharing the so called video, popups after popups will appear until the user complete a survey that unfortunately subscribed the unwilling victims to sign up for expensive SMS services. The victims will then be charged for every text message they sent, staff at Hoax Slayer found.

 

Since the reader had keyed in their name and contact details, they will soon receive calls after calls from marketing personnel. The victims who were prodded on to download a video plugin update soon will found that their browsers are being hijacked by cybercriminals.

 

The same Facebook scam had also been made in the wake of the missing and downed Malaysia Airlines or MAS flights MH370 and Mh17. At the time, cyber hackers spread bogus link saying the actual missile that downed MH17 was caught in a video and that Mh370 was found by a sailor in Bermuda Triangle.

 

Meanwhile, Australia had joined the search for the missing AirAsia QZ8501 with the Australian Defence Force sending its infra-red and electro-optical sensor equipped Orion aircraft on Dec 29. Prime Minister Tony Abbott had earlier said that the case of the AirAsia plane is not a mystery like that of MH370 or an atrocity like the MH17.

 

"It is an aircraft that was flying a regular route on a regular schedule, it struck what appears to have been horrific weather and it's downed," Mr Abbott said as reported by The Sydney Morning Herald. Rest assured, aviation experts would work together "to come up with the most effective way of ensuring that we don't jut lose planes," Mr Abbott highlighted.

 

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/577324/20141229/airasia-facebook-scam-tacloban-philippines.htm#.VKEdqV4AAA