[Social Media Scam] You will never Drink Pepsi after watching this leaked video footage

Dear friends, this is warning for a big scam running on your social media especially on Facebook.
You will never Drink Pepsi after watching this leaked video footage
It is really a shocking secret exposed them, now everyone hates after seeing this video footage
WIXYZ.COM
What it does: It attracts visitor to see sensational video. On click visitors are navigated to another website page where they prompted (or one can say forced) to be share this video on its own time line and further it navigate to another malicious site where malicious stuffs are served.

Aim:  Scammers very first aim is to get more and more hits via shared stuffs on social network. Afterwards they navigate visitors to their own malicious site where malicious applications, surveys and advertisings are placed. The ultimate goal is to generate online revenue from unaware visitors.

Effects: It results in:-
  • Spoiling social media.
  • Danger to computer resources through spread of malicious software and codes.
  • Wastage of user’s time and money.
How this scam goes:
First look at the eye catching sensational picture below. It looks a shared video post. But it’s not so, rather just a photo.

After click it goes to malicious site page whose url address – http://wixyz.com/psi/ where visitor is forced to share with others. This leads to spread of scam in natural way.



After this visitor navigated to one more malicious site with url address – http://perfect-player.com/viral/step1.php where other malicious code and advertisement is kept.


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More about: Here you witness, what a Social Media Scam is, how it appear, sustain and spread. What is its aim behind and how it affects the viewer. On the basis of look and feel we have tried to cover most of the things related with this scam here. Is there anything more behind the curtain? – Read here >>
 

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